Method for improving print performance and quality by accumulating, storing and using resource accounting information with a print job

Patent 5993088 Issued on November 30, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date:

September 30, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

Application

No. 164125 filed on 09/30/1998

US Classes:

400/78, Typewriter controls apparatus used for accounting function400/61, INCLUDING CONTROL OF FORMAT AND SELECTION OF TYPE-FACE BY PROGRAMMED CONTROL-SYSTEM (E.G., INPUT TYPEWRITER)400/63, Including editing or revision system400/76INCLUDING CONTROL OF FORMAT BY PROGRAMMED-CONTROL-SYSTEM

Examiners

Primary: Burr, Edgar S.
Assistant: Nolan, Charles H. Jr.

Attorney, Agent or Firm

LaBaw; Jeffrey S.

International Class

B41J 003/44

Abstract

The invention provide a method for optimal use of print resource during the preparation a print job for printing. During the creation of a spool file, or similar intermediate file, the invention logs data on print resource usage in a print job in an accounting file. Upon review of this data, it modifies the print resource usage data in the accounting file as necessary to optimize print resource usage. The spool file and the accounting file are then sent to a printer driver. The printer driver knows how to use the print resource data in the accounting file to optimize the print resource usage.