Typewriting machines – Sheet or web – Including feed of plural record-media arranged side-by-side
Patent
1998-04-24
2000-02-22
Hilten, John
Typewriting machines
Sheet or web
Including feed of plural record-media arranged side-by-side
400582, 400605, 400624, B41J 1150
Patent
active
060272686
ABSTRACT:
A printing apparatus and method of use therefore are disclosed. The printing apparatus is usable as a replacement printer for replacing an existing printer apparatus without having to change printer drivers or make custom firmware changes in computers on a computer network. The inventive printer apparatus includes a map of source number assignments in the memory of the replacement printer apparatus for the replaced existing printer apparatus and for the replacement printer apparatus. The printing apparatus has a plurality of paper sources with each paper source being assigned a particular pre-assigned assignment code. The print request codes associated with the existing network printer being replaced must be determined. The print request codes are representative of a particular type of paper source. A map of print request codes which are sent by computers on the network for driving the existing printer are compared with the pre-assigned source number assignment of the replacement printer. If the pre-assigned source number assignment is different for any of the paper sources than the print request code, a user can change the source number assignment to agree with the print request code. These changes are placed into a table into the non-volatile memory of the printer, thereby creating a mapping of source number assignments for the new replacement printer, the old printer being replaced, and the custom firmware. The pre-assigned source number assignments can be changed using either NPA commands, the printing apparatus operations panel or using printer job language (PJL).
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Bischel Patrick Oscar
Brown, III John Knox
D'Alessandro Kathy Scott
Yohon, Jr. Edward William
Brady John A.
Hilten John
Lexmark International Inc.
Nolan, Jr. Charles H.
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