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AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsMarquis G. Waller, Gerald Donald Boldt, Tadao Yamasaki, Steve Cousins
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System, method, and software of providing a printing service. In one embodiment, a printing system comprises a cloud printing service that stores device capability information for different types of printers supervised by a print server. The cloud printing service receives a print job, identifies a plurality of the printers that are capable of printing the print job based on the device capability information, and transforms printable content and control data of the print job into a plurality of printer-specific print streams. Each of the printer-specific print streams is in a printable output format for one of the plurality of the printers. The cloud printing service provides one or more of the printer-specific print streams to the print server.
A printing system, comprising:
A method comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable medium embodying programmed instructions executed by a processor, wherein the instructions direct the processor to implement a method of operating a printing system, the method comprising:
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