Printing device having memory usage indicator
OwnerKram Henry Allen, Linn James Kropf +1inventors
InventorsKram Henry Allen, Linn James Kropf, Clifford Lee Coppinger
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Abstract
A printing device is provided, the printing device including memory configured to receive and store a pending print job, a print engine configured to print the pending print job onto a medium, a processor configured to determine an amount of memory utilized by the pending print job, and a memory usage indicator configured to display to a user a representation of the amount of memory utilized by the pending print job.
Claims25
A printing device, comprising:
- memory configured to receive and store a pending print job;
- a print engine configured to print the pending print job onto a medium;
- a processor configured to determine an amount of memory utilized by the pending print job;
- and
- a memory usage indicator configured to display to a user a representation of the amount of memory utilized by the pending print job.
A printing device configured to receive a print job and print the print job onto a medium, the printing device comprising:
- memory configured to receive and store the print job;
- a print engine configured to print the print job onto a medium;
- a processor configured to determine an amount of memory utilized by the print job;
- and
- a display configured to display a resource indicator that indicates the amount of the memory utilized by the print job.
A printing device configured to receive a print job from an external device and print the print job onto a medium, the printing device comprising:
- memory configured to store the print job while the print job is pending;
- a print engine configured to print the print job onto the medium;
- and
- progress indicator means configured to display a representation of the progression of the pending print job to a user during printing of the pending print job.
In a printing device having memory configured to store a pending print job, a method for indicating progression of the pending print job to a user of the printing device, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining an amount of memory utilized by the pending print job;
- and
- presenting a representation of the amount of memory utilized by the pending print job to the user.
An article including a storage medium having a plurality of machine-readable instructions stored thereon, the instructions being executable by a printing device to perform a method of indicating progression of a pending print job to a user of the printing device, the printing device having memory configured to store the pending print job, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining an amount of memory utilized by the pending print job;
- and
- presenting a representation of the amount of memory utilized by the pending print job to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.