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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsAmanda Giang-Tien Nguyen, Albert Leon Ting, Feng Yue
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A print architecture, including a print manager interposed between an application and a set of installed filters that complete features associated with submitted print jobs, includes an integrated data tree that stores a composite of the features and printer personalities supported by the print system including the installed filters. Properties/behaviors of components of the print architecture, including installed print filters and job tickets, are specified in accordance with an XML-based print schema. A print manager interface facilitates parsing and incorporating feature completion capabilities supported by the installed filters. A capabilities interface presents the features supported by the filters, organized in the form of feature descriptors. In addition to designating feature properties, the feature descriptors designate an order in which a print request is passed through ones of the installed filters to complete the features identified in a print job ticket derived from the feature properties of the feature descriptor.
A print management framework, embedded as computer instructions and data structures in a computer system, for managing print operations executed' by output devices having potentially multiple distinct personalities, the print management framework comprising:
A method for processing a print job by a print management framework for managing print operations executed by output devices, the method comprising:
A computer-readable medium including computer-executable instructions for facilitating the processing of a print job by a print management framework for managing print operations executed by output devices, the computer-executable instructions facilitating performing a method comprising:
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