Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

James E Anderson

Kris Randall Livingston

Robert E Pentecost

Mark Muguira

Rich Forcier

Peter G Hwang

David E Smith

Theresa A Burkes

Terry P Mahoney

Michael Jonas Borg

Ben Tyson

Randy B Davenport

Examples disclosed herein relate to displaying, in a user interface, a list of available print jobs, wherein at least one of the available print jobs comprising a secured print job is displayed as a placeholder entry instead of an identifying entry, receiving a selection of the placeholder entry requesting an authentication for the secured print job, and displaying the identifying entry of the secured print job upon verification of the authentication.

Print job listing

Methods and arrangements are provided for use in a printer and associated computer(s). The printer is configured to periodically and/or automatically detect when changes are being made to a print media supply tray and output/display the current configuration of the print media supply tray for use by the user and/or programs running on the computer. The current configuration of the print tray is determined using detectable mechanisms that are either hardware and/or software implemented. The configuration of the supply tray is displayed to the user via the printer display, a tray-mounted display, and/or though a graphical user interface (GUI) on the computer. The configuration is defined by at least the size and type of the print media associated with the supply tray.

Methods and arrangements for providing and using printer configuration status information

Methods and arrangement for providing and using printer configuration status information

A printing apparatus is provided which includes a print mechanism configured to print in a plurality of color modes, and a controller configured to select an active color mode switching option from among a plurality of color mode switching options, and instruct the print mechanism to switch between the color modes according to the active color mode switching option. Each of the color mode switching options defines a manner in which the printing apparatus and method will switch between the plurality of color modes when printing a document.

Apparatus and method for managing printing mode switching in a printing apparatus

Methods and arrangements are provided for use in a printer and associated computer(s). The printer is configured to overcome potential print job configuration errors by gathering current printer configuration status data with respect to the available print media and comparing the current print media to the requested print media to make decisions that are likely to provide the user with the appropriate print media. The methods and arrangements provide for additional print media handling capabilities associated with certain types of orientation-dependent print media and simplex and/or duplex printing requirements. The user is only asked to manually intervene when the print media is unavailable or cannot be readily determined from the print job. When this occurs, the additional configuration information that is gathered can be provided to the user to assist with the manual intervention.

Methods and arrangements for improved paper handling based on printer configuration status information

A printing device receives information that identifies a resource locator, determines from the resource locator the resource and a location of the resource in a resource system, accesses the resource, and prints the resource. The printing device receives the information from a wireless or direct-connect input device, or the printing device receives an image of the information from a scanning device.

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Meridian, ID, United States of America

James E Anderson