Printing Method for Screen Image
AssigneeKonica Minolta Systems Laboratory, Inc.
InventorDaisuke Takahashi
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Abstract
Disclosed is a computer implemented printing method to print on a sheet an image of an object of which data is placed in a clipboard of a computer, the method including the procedures of: the computer activating a printing program installed in the computer; the printing program automatically retrieving the data of the object from the clipboard; the printing program requesting a printer driver installed in the computer to generate a print job to print an image of the object based on the data retrieved from the clipboard; the printer driver transmitting the print job to the printer; and the printer printing the image of the object on the sheet according to the print job.
Claims17
A computer implemented printing method to print on a sheet an image of an object of which data is placed in a clipboard of a computer, the method comprising:
- activating a printing program installed in the computer;
- the printing program automatically retrieving the data of the object from the clipboard;
- the printing program requesting a printer driver installed in the computer to generate a print job to print an image of the object based on the data retrieved from the clipboard;
- the printer driver transmitting the print job to the printer;
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- the printer printing the image of the object on the sheet according to the print job.
A computer readable medium provided with a printing program which is executable by a computer capable of placing data of an object in a clipboard, the printing program being activated and executed by the computer to conduct steps comprising:
- automatically retrieving the data of the object from the clipboard;
- and
- requesting a printer driver installed in the computer to generate a print job to print an image of the object based on the data retrieved from the clipboard.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.