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AssigneeSharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
InventorPhilip Orrin Wheeler
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Abstract
A method of configuring paper stock in a printing device. The method includes loading paper into a tray of the printing device and then providing information about the paper and the tray to the printing device. Once the information is provided to the printing device, a user interface is updated to include that information. Also included is a method presenting a user interface that includes establishing a window on a display device viewable by a user and providing the user with a view of paper in at least one paper tray of the printing device. The method also includes the step of allowing the user to select the at least one paper tray to complete a print job.
Claims26
A method of configuring paper stock in a printing device, wherein the printing device is adapted to receive at least one tray, wherein the at least one tray is adapted to receive at least one paper having a surface, and wherein the printing device is adapted to retrieve the paper from the tray for printing, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a visual image of preprinted characteristics of the surface of the at least one paper and information about the at least one tray adapted to receive the at least one paper;
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- providing a user interface comprising the visual image of preprinted characteristics information and information about the tray.
A method of providing a user interface operable to interact with a printing device, wherein the printing device is adapted to receive at least one paper tray and wherein the at least one tray is adapted to receive at least one paper having a surface, the method comprising the steps of:
- establishing a window on a display device viewable by a user ;and
- providing the user with a view of the surface of the at least one paper adapted to be received in the at least one paper tray, wherein the view comprises a visual image of the surface of the at least one paper.
A computer readable medium containing software code, said code operable to:
- receive information about the visual image characteristics of a surface of a paper , wherein the paper is adapted to be received by and associated with a tray in which the paper may be received;
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- update a user interface to include the visual image characteristics information.
A printing device comprising:
- at least one tray adapted to receive at least one paper having a surface, wherein the printing device is adapted to retrieve the at least one paper for printing;
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- a processor adapted to interact with a set of instructions, wherein the set of instructions is operable to:
- receive visual image characteristics information of the surface of the at least one paper, wherein the at least one paper is associated with the at least one tray;
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- update a user interface to include the received information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.