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US 8,947,707 B1Granted
Method and apparatus for printing raster page
AssigneeMarvell International Ltd.
InventorsDavid H. Harris, Randall D. Briggs
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Abstract
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method. The method includes allocating, by a host computer, a bandwidth of a communication port to a printer that shares the communication port of the host computer with other peripheral devices, generating, by the host computer, a raster page having a file size smaller than a maximum file size, and transferring, by the host computer, the raster page to the printer at the bandwidth to satisfy a print rate of the printer.
Claims18
A method, comprising:
- allocating, by a host computer, a bandwidth of a communication port to a printer that shares the communication port of the host computer with other peripheral devices;
- generating, by the host computer, a raster page at a particular resolution so that a corresponding file size of the raster page is equal to or smaller than a maximum file size that can be transmitted to the printer at the bandwidth of the communication port at a transfer rate that is equal to or greater than a print rate of the printer;
- and
- transferring, by the host computer, the raster page to the printer at the bandwidth to satisfy the print rate of the printer.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a communication port coupled to a printer that shares the communication port with other peripheral devices of the apparatus;
- and
- a controller configured to allocate a bandwidth of the communication port to the printer, generate a raster page at a particular resolution so that a corresponding file size of the raster page is equal to or smaller than a maximum file size that can be transmitted to the printer at the bandwidth of the communication port at a transfer rate that is equal to or greater than a print rate of the printer, and transfer the raster page to the printer via the communication port at the bandwidth to satisfy the print rate of the printer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.