Facsimile and static presentation processing – Static presentation processing – Emulation or plural modes
Reexamination Certificate
2007-08-14
2007-08-14
Lamb, Twyler (Department: 2625)
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Static presentation processing
Emulation or plural modes
C358S001150, C358S001160, C710S014000, C710S016000, C345S502000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10269378
ABSTRACT:
An operating system alternate arrangement for a printer driver/spooler/print processor is disclosed. Referring to one embodiment, although using a PPD-compatible printer driver is often desirable, such a driver includes no mechanism for implementing a printer feature that cannot be specified in a PPD. The disclosed alternate arrangement uses the PPD for those printer options and features that can be specified by PPD. The remaining options and features are classified as “custom actions” that are processed in a custom print processor that is bound to the spooler in place of the operating system's default print processor. Preferably, however, the custom print processor does not implement any traditional print processor functionality. Instead, after performing any custom actions, the custom print processor subroutines call the OS default print processor subroutines to perform traditional print processing. This arrangement avoids the printer manufacturer having to duplicate and maintain functionality present in the driver and print processor maintained by the OS or custom replacement print processor vendor.
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Lamb Twyler
Marger & Johnson & McCollom, P.C.
Robinson Myles D.
Sharp Laboratories of America Inc.
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