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US 2007/0176957 A1Published application
Architecture and memory card for hand-held printer
AssigneeLexmark International, Inc.
InventorsAdam Ahne, Thomas Eade, Michael Webb
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Abstract
A printer architecture and memory card is described. The architecture can include an integrated circuit and a memory card. The memory card can include print swaths and bit-maps of thumbnail images associated with the print swaths. The thumbnail images can be displayed on the hand-held printer. A print swath associated with the selected thumbnail image can be printed.
Claims16
A method of storing print information in a memory area, the method comprising:
- storing in a first area of said memory area metadata that includes a first pointer to at least one print swath and a second pointer to a thumbnail image associated with said print swath;
- storing in a second area of said memory area said print swath and said thumbnail image data.
A method of printing using a hand-held printer, the method comprising:
- retrieving from a memory a bitmap of a to-be-printed image;
- displaying said bitmap on a display of said hand-held printer;
- retrieving, in response to a print command, a print swath from said memory, said print swath being associated with said displayed image and formatted specifically for use with said hand-held printer;
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- printing in accordance with one or more print instructions associated with said print swath.
2 more elements
An architecture for a hand-held printer, the architecture comprising:
- an integrated circuit;
- a memory card connected to the integrated circuit, the memory card storing data including at least one print swath that is specific to the hand-held printer and at least one bit-map of at least one thumbnail image associated with the at least one print swath.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.