International Business Machines Corporation

Lexmark International, Inc.

James D Lewis

James Francis Webb

Mark Lane Mayberry

Stephen R Troyer

John A Lowy

David B Callister

Printer (1) monitors current control language being interpreted for end of page and end of job codes, depending upon the language. Upon observing such commands, up to 500 bytes in buffer memory (19) are observed for command codes characteristic of specific languages. ASCII language is recognized by any one of several command codes, many of which have ESC. PostScript language is recognized by any one of several commands including the ASCII sequence of the percent sign. PCL4 or PCL5 and pen movement graphics languages are also recognized. Operator intervention and special coding defining the language are completely avoided.

Automatic printer data stream language determination

A charge coupled device (CCD) serial memory has data read from or written into it at a sub-multiple rate of the data rate. The sub-multiple rate is determined by the number of interleaved blocks into which the CCD serial memory is divided.

Method and system for data conversion

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Lexington, KY, United States of America

James D Lewis