Electronics for Imaging Gmbh

Minolta-qms, Inc.

Kevin John O'Neill, Jr

Michael W Barry

Michael David Raines

Robert Gregory Pennington

Jeffrey Pitts Dockman

Matthew David Shumaker

Elliot Neal Tompkins

Mahendra Varman

Apparatus and methods for distributing print jobs. A print job is generated at an application node of a network, and has associated therewith print parameters. The print job is routed to a distribution node on the network. The parameters are then parsed from the generated print job and the print job parameterized with predetermined metrics that are a function of at least one of the parsed parameters. The parameterized print job is then routed to a destination device on a destination node on the network.

Apparatus and methods for distributing print jobs

Method and apparatus for distributing print jobs. A print job is generated at an application node of a network, and has associated therewith print parameters. The print job is routed to a distribution node on the network. The parameters are then parsed from the generated print job and the print job parameterized with predetermined metrics that are a function of at least one of the parsed parameters. The parameterized print job is then routed to a destination device on a destination node the network.

Method and apparatus for distributing print jobs

In a method and apparatus for obtaining a hard copy of an electronic image, a plurality of image luminescence values corresponding to pixels of an electronic image are received and a probability distribution of the plurality of image luminescence values is generated. Each image luminescence value has a first binary bit length. From the probability distribution, the luminescence values having less than a desired quantity of image luminescence values associated therewith are determined. Two or more adjacent groups of continuous luminescence values are identified from the probability distribution. Each luminescence value of each group has greater than or equal to the desired quantity of image luminescence values associated therewith. The two or more adjacent groups are separated by one or more of the luminescence values having less than the desired quantity of image luminescence values associated therewith. The two or more adjacent groups of image luminescence values and the luminescence values therebetween are scaled to obtain a plurality of printer luminescence values having a second bit length less than the first bit length. The printer luminescence values are printed to obtain a hard copy of the electronic image.

Method and apparatus for reformatting a high resolution image file for printing on a lower resolution printer

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Kevin John O'Neill, Jr