Printers and Printing
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsGregory Braverman, Eyal Shelef, Shlomo Harush, Arnon Elihav, Alon Moshe, Rachel Lev-Ran
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Abstract
A printer control system (101) comprising a processor (104) and processor accessible memory (103), the processor (104) being adapted to control the memory (103) to store a concordance between substrate identities for different identified substrates and print control data to be used by the print control system (101) in controlling a printer to control colour and/or quality when printing upon identified substrates, the processor (104) being adapted to associate at least one first identified substrate with the same print control data used for a second, different, identified substrate.
Claims11
A printer control system comprising a processor and processor accessible memory, the processor being adapted to control the memory to store a concordance between substrate identities for different identified substrates and print control data to be used by the print control system in controlling a printer to control colour and/or quality when printing upon identified substrates, the processor being adapted to associate at least one first identified substrate with the same print control data used for a second, different, identified substrate, the processor being configured to be capable of allowing the user to perform at least one of adding, deleting and transferring one or more substrates to/from a first group of associated substrates.
A method of printing upon a substrate comprising identifying the substrate to be printed upon to a computer processor as being of a first identity, the computer processor selecting print control data adapted to control the operation of the printer to control colour and/or quality of a printing operation, and the selected print control data being the print control data of a different, second identity of substrate with which said print control data is associated, said first identity of substrate not having its own, print control data different from those associated with said second identity of substrate.
A printer control program product for a printer control system, the program product comprising instructions which, when loaded onto the printer control system, configure a processor of the printer control system to be capable of controlling a memory of said system to store a concordance between substrate identities for different identified substrates, and print control data to be used by the print control system in controlling a printer to control colour and/or quality when printing on identified substrates, the instructions further configuring the processor to associate at least one first identified substrate with the same print control data used for a second, different, identified substrate, whereby the processor is configured to be capable of allowing the user to perform at least one of adding, deleting and transferring one or more substrates to/from a first group of associated substrates.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.