US 2009/0021757 A1 · "Proof print" for job settings

Abstract

According to techniques described herein, print job attributes are checked to identify potential conflicts and potential invalid settings. According to one embodiment of the invention, a job setting manager process executing on a printing device is configured to examine and store print job attributes as detected by print interpreter modules. According to an embodiment of the invention, the job setting manager maintains a data structure comprising print job attributes, their values, and other information. As each interpreter module detects a job setting in the print data, the job setting manager receives this setting and its value and checks the data structure to identify conflicts between previously-set job attributes and whether the requested job attribute is supported by the destination printing device. According to an embodiment of the invention, if a conflict is identified, a notification is produced.

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Dependent claims

A printing device that is configured to:

receive a print data stream;
determine, from the print data stream, one or more print attributes that conflict with each other;
emulate, using software that is resident on the printing device, printing of a print job that is represented by the print data stream without actually printing the print job;
generate a notification that identifies the one or more print attributes that conflict with each other instead of printing the print job;
and
provide the notification to a user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

"Proof print" for job settings

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Abstract

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