International Business Machines Corporation

Keith Edward Carter

Mark Wayne VanderWiele

Patrick Edward Nogay

Michael Richard Cooper

Mark Joseph Hamzy

Krishna Kishore Yellepeddy

David Harvey Fritz

A method and apparatus in a distributed data processing system for controlling printing. An interface is presented, wherein the interface allows for association of a logical font with a number of system fonts on a per printer queue basis. Responsive to a print request, the print request is printed using the system font associated with the logical font for that print request.

Method and apparatus for matching system and device fonts

Data processing systems are provided with a mobile print support facility useful for mobile data processing systems such as laptops, notebooks, and the like. When a client data processing system is disconnected from a desired remote print server, or the remote print server is otherwise inaccessible, a local transient printer queue is automatically created and all print jobs submitted by the client data processing system are spooled to the transient printer queue. Once a transient printer queue is created, a mobile print connection manager periodically checks a status of the connection to the remote printer queue. When reconnected, print jobs within the transient printer queue are replayed to the remote printer queue. Print jobs may be replayed in the background or a replay GUI may be spawned to allow the user to manipulate transient printer queues and their contents. The replay GUI allows pending print jobs within a transient printer queue to be redirected to different remote printer queues, print servers, or print devices.

Mobility support for printing

A print rendering server system in a network computing environment perform many of the most compute intensive tasks in the overall print process for a plurality of resource limited clients. In response to a print request from the client, a print job in a print ready format is produced and sent back for local printing by the resource limited client system.

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