Notifying a computer user of printing with temporary printer properties
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsD. Travis Lay, Travis J. Parry
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Abstract
In a computer system, print jobs are printed on a selected printer utilizing the printer properties in effect for that printer at the time that the print job was spooled for printing. Typically, the printer prints utilizing default printer properties. However, users may temporarily override these default values by specifying temporary printer properties from within applications. A printer properties notification is provided to a user when temporary printer properties are in effect when printing is initiated. Selection buttons provided during this notification allow the user to then indicate how to proceed.
Claims21
A method of notifying a user that a current set of printer properties will be used in performing a current print request on a selected printer comprising:
- determining whether a temporary set of printer properties is in effect for the selected printer for the current print request;
- and
- notifying the user if the temporary set of printer properties is determined to be in effect for the current print request.
A system for notifying a user that a current set of printer properties will be used in performing a current print request on a printer comprising:
- a computer instruction storage medium containing:
- a set of computer instructions for determining whether a temporary set of printer properties is in effect for the printer for the current print request;
- and
- a set of computer instructions for notifying the user if the temporary set of printer properties is determined to be in effect for the current print request.
A computer readable medium having computer readable instructions thereon for:
- determining whether a temporary set of printer properties is in effect for a printer for a current print request from a user;
- and
- notifying the user if the temporary set of printer properties is determined to be in effect for the current print request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.