Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Raghothama S Cauligi

Shell Sterling Simpson

Erik D Ness

David M Hall

Charles J Gazdik

Sherri L Brown

Donald J Welch

Lainye Reich

Steve Claus

A method for use in printing a print job from an application program on a printer. The printer has associated job settings which include a private portion containing a printer-specific job setting. The method includes providing a program interface configured to enable the application program to access the printer-specific job setting. The method also typically includes, from the application program, sending a command to the program interface to perform an operation related to the printer-specific job setting, and performing the operation related to the printer-specific job setting.

Printing method

A printing process for use in a computer system includes process steps to compare a first polygon object to subsequent polygon objects and/or compare a first bitmap to subsequent bitmaps, and to store only the attribute data of the first polygon object and/or attribute data of the first bitmap if the attribute data of the first polygon object is the same as the attribute data of subsequent polygon objects, and attribute data of first bitmap and subsequent bitmaps is the same.

Printer driver for generating a reduced printer description file

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Vancouver, WA, United States of America

Raghothama S Cauligi