US 7,072,064 B2Granted

Web-based imaging service capable of being trained to provide manual duplex printing

AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.

InventorsShell S. Simpson, Ward S. Foster, Kris R. Livingston

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Abstract

In a web based imaging environment, a user accesses a destination service representing a printer having manual duplex printing capability, and selects a manual duplex option. If the selected printer is unfamiliar to the destination service, it guides the user through a training process describing the paper input path of the printer. The destination service prints an image on a page, asks the user to reload the page in a certain orientation and prints an image on the page again. The user provides feedback about the orientations of the printed images, which the destination service uses to formulate instructions to later guide the user through manual duplex printing using the selected printer. In a variation, the destination service stores the manual duplex instructions formulated for various printers, thus avoiding the need to retrain.

Claims19

Dependent claims

In a web based imaging environment, a method for manual duplex printing, comprising:

downloading, from a destination service representing one or more printing devices, content to a browser for a user, the content to be executed by the browser to enable the user to select one of the one or more printing devices as well as production options;
at the destination service, receiving from the browser a production option for manual duplex printing for a selected one of the one or more printing devices;
from the destination service, causing the selected printing device to print training images;
at the destination service, receiving confirmation of orientations of the training images based on a response from the user;
formulating manual duplex printing instructions specific to the selected printing device based on the confirmed orientations of the raining images;
and
receiving, at the destination service, imaging information from a personal imaging repository associated with a user;
from the destination service, causing the selected printing device to print a first portion of the imaging information on a first side of each of a plurality of sheets;
presenting the user with instructions to reload the printed sheets in the selected printing device in accordance with the formulated manual duplex printing instructions;
and
from the destination service, causing the selected printing device to print a second portion of the imaging information on a second side of each of the plurality of sheets.

8 more elements

A destination service in a web based imaging environment representing one or more printing devices, said destination service operable to:

download content into a user's browser, the content to be executed by the browser to enable the user to select one of the one or mare printing devices as well as production options;
receive from the browser a production option for manual duplex printing for a selected printing device;
cause the selected printing device to print training images;
receive confirmation of orientations of the training images based on a response from the user;
formulate manual duplex printing instructions specific to the selected printing device based on the confirmed orientations of the training images;
receive imaging information from a personal imaging repository associated with the user;
cause the selected printing device to print a first portion of the imaging information on a first side of each of a plurality of sheets;
present the user with instructions to reload the printed sheets in the selected printing device in accordance with the formulated manual duplex printing instructions;
and
cause the selected printing device to print a second portion of the imaging information on a second side of each of the plurality of sheets.

7 more elements

In a web based imaging environment a system capable of being trained to provide manual duplex printing, said system comprising:

a user's browser;
a personal imaging repository storing imaging information, the repository being associated with the user;
and
a destination service representing one or more printing devices, said destination service operable to:
download content into the user's browser, the content to be executed by the browser to enable the user to select one of the one or more printing devices as well as production options;
receive from the browser a production option for manual duplex printing for a selected printing device;
cause the selected printing device to print training images;
receive confirmation of orientations of the training images based on a response from the user;
formulate manual duplex printing instructions specific to the selected printing device based on the confirmed orientations of the training images;
receive the imaging information from the personal imaging repository associated with the user;
cause the selected printing device to print a first portion of the imaging information an a first side of each of a plurality of sheets;
present the user with instructions to reload the printed sheets in the selected printing device in accordance with the formulated manual duplex printing instructions;
and
cause the selected printing device to print a second portion of the imaging information on a second side of each of the plurality of sheets.

11 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/021,343Filed 30 Oct 2001
Published: US 2003/0081245 A11 May 2003
Granted: 4 Jul 2006
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G06F 3/1204
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic…
G06F 3/1205
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings,…
G06F 3/125
Print job management: page layout or assigning input pages onto output media, e.g. imposition
G06F 3/1253
Print job management: configuration of print job parameters, e.g. using UI at the client