Printer driver, apparatus and methods
AssigneeXerox Corporation
InventorJonathan Allen Edmonds
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Abstract
Disclosed are methods of controlling operation of a printer, apparatus and computer-readable medium. The embodiments control operation of a printer by receiving a print command for printing from a user, displaying a print user interface including selectable document settings, receiving an indication from the user of selected ones of the documents settings, receiving an indication from the user to save the selected document settings as an application default setting corresponding to an application, and controlling printing of documents opened in the application to print on the printer using the application default setting and the selected document settings.
Claims20
A method of controlling operation of a printer, comprising:
- receiving a print command for printing from a user;
- displaying a print user interface including selectable document settings;
- receiving an indication from the user of selected ones of the documents settings;
- receiving an indication from the user to save the selected document settings as an application default setting corresponding to an application;
- and
- controlling printing of documents opened in the application to print on the printer using the application default setting and the selected document settings.
An apparatus for controlling printing of a document on a printer, comprising:
- a memory that stores print driver instructions;
- and
- a processor that executes the print driver instructions to cause printing of the document when receiving a print command for printing from a user by:
- receiving an indication from the user of selected ones of the documents settings;
- receiving an indication from the user to save the selected document settings as an application default setting corresponding to an application;
- and
- controlling printing of documents opened in the application to print on the printer using the application default setting and the selected document settings.
A computer-readable medium comprising:
- a computer-usable data carrier storing instructions, the instructions when executed by a computer causing the computer to control printing by:
- receiving a print command for printing from a user;
- receiving an indication from the user of selected documents settings and to save the selected document settings as an application default setting corresponding to an application;
- and
- controlling printing of documents opened in the application to print on the printer using the application default setting and the selected document settings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.