Instant label printer for host computer
AssigneePrint Things
InventorsRobert Olodort, Charles Micalizzi, Louis Cambruzzi, Randy Turchik
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Abstract
By accessing the screen drivers of a host computer, a label printer provides a user of a host computer immediate printing onto a label of portions of a screen display generated by programs running on the host. A program controlling the label printer and executed by the host computer searches for and locates an address field on the screen, or data may be input to the screen by the user, to be captured for printing on a label. The data to be printed may be in alphanumeric format, graphic format, bar code format, or any combination of them.
Claims10
a label printing system for interfacing with a host computer, said host computer executing application programs, such as a word processing program, and including a keyboard, a display screen and screen driver means for driving said display screen, said label printing system comprising:
- label printer means for recording data on a label;
- printer control means providing control signals to drive said label printer means;
- interface means for interfacing said label printer control means to said host computer;
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- a control program executable by said host computer and independent of said application program for
- (a) interrogating said screen driver means for data displayed on said display screen in response to the application program executed by said host computer;
- (b) importing to said control program a portion of said displayed data to be printed on said label;
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- (c) supplying the imported data portion to said printer control means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.