Active printing system and method for printing based on image size
AssigneeSystem Development Corporation
InventorsD. Keith Withington, Reese W. Murdock
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Abstract
A system and method for printing an image on a medium whose dimensions are determined based on the size of the image are disclosed herein. A system includes a processor and a printing software system including an—Active Printing System (“APS”) configured to execute on the processor. The APS receives from an application program invoking the APS a size of an image to be printed and returns to the application program a set of dimensions within which the image is to be printed on a selected print media. The set of dimensions is determined based, at least in part, on the size of the image.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a printing software system comprising an Active Printing System (“APS”) configured to execute on the processor, the APS provides a display of capabilities of a printing device, the display comprising:
- a graphic representation of an image to be printed shown relative to a maximum printable width of a continuous feed media of unbounded length independent of and without selection or setup of a predefined page size.
A method, comprising:
- generating a display, via a processor, the display comprises a graphic representation of an image to be printed shown relative to a maximum printable width of a continuous feed media of unbounded length independent of and without selection or setup of a predefined page size;
- and
- providing the display to a display device.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with a computer program comprising:
- instructions that when executed cause a processor to generate a display that comprises a graphic representation of an image to be printed shown relative to printable width of a continuous feed media of unbounded length independent of and without selection or setup of a predefined page size;
- and
- instructions that when executed cause a processor to provide the display to a display device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.