Printer driver that causes a computer to generate a print command to print with decolorable material
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKoichiro SAITO, Mikio KAKIZAKI, Atsushi NAKAMOTO
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Abstract
A printer driver that is executable in a computer causes the computer to carry out a process including the steps of reading a first number of copies of a document to be printed with a decolorable material and a second number of copies of the document to be printed with a non-decolorable material, and generating a print command for a printer that causes the printer to print the first number of copies with the decolorable material and the second number of copies with the non-decolorable material.
Claims17
A printer driver that is executable in a computer to cause the computer to carry out a process including the steps of:
- reading a first number of copies of a document to be printed with a decolorable material and a second number of copies of the document to be printed with a non-decolorable material;
- and
- generating a print command for a printer that causes the printer to print the first number of copies with the decolorable material and the second number of copies with the non-decolorable material.
A printer driver that is executable in a computer to cause the computer to carry out a process including the steps of:
- displaying, on a display unit connected to the computer, a user interface including a first input region in which a type of a material to be used for printing a document is specified and a second input region in which a selection as to whether or not sheet processing is to be performed on printed sheets of the document, is made, the sheet processing including at least one of punching, stapling, and folding;
- and
- generating a print command for a printer that causes the printer to print the document with the material specified in the first input region and perform the sheet processing specified in the second input region, if any, on the printed document, wherein
- when a decolorable material is specified in the first input region, the sheet processing is not performed.
A printer driver that is executable in a computer to cause the computer to carry out a process including the steps of:
- displaying, on a display unit connected to the computer, a user interface including a first input region in which a type of a material to be used for printing a document is specified and a second input region in which a selection as to whether or not sheet processing is to be performed on printed sheets of the document, is made, the sheet processing including at least one of punching, stapling, and folding;
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- generating a print command that causes a printer to print the document with the material specified in the first input region and perform the sheet processing specified in the second input region, if any, on the printed document, wherein
- when the selection to perform the sheet processing is made in the second input region before an input is made in the first input region, a non-decolorable material is specified in the first input region.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.