Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Theodore E Ransom

Dana E Laursen

Donald X Smith, Ii

William R Frolik

Kenneth W Crangle

Martin Schwarz

Roland Penny

William T McMahon

Michael R Wilson

Adam J Bernosky

George M Sachs

Philip W Manijak

A method for presenting alert notifications includes identifying an alert condition for one of a master device, a slave device, and a production device. Operational states of the slave device and the master device are determined. For each of the slave device and the master device, upon a determination that the given device is in an idle state, that device is caused to display a notification corresponding to the identified alert condition.

System and method for presenting alert notifications for master and slave devices if in idle operational states

A computer system includes an application with the ability to select printer settings from any of a variety of potential sources, and associate the printer settings with a document to be printed. The potential sources may include user-selected sets of printer settings that are particular to the document to be printed, are associated generally with the documents to be printed using the application, and globally associated with the computer system. The potential sources may also include a set of content-provider printer settings associated with the document and selected by a content-provider of the document.

Intelligent printer settings

A URL page is printed by a computing system. When a reference to a URL address is dragged and dropped upon a print icon, the URL page is accessed from the Internet. The URL page is then printed on a printer. When the URL page is accessed and printed, the URL page is not displayed to a user of the computing system. Also, when a reference to the URL address for the URL page is dragged and dropped upon a desktop for a computing system, a special icon representing the URL page address is created on the desktop. Upon a user performing a function to activate the special icon, the URL page is printed.

Direct printing of contents of a universal resource locator

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Corvallis, OR, United States of America

Theodore E Ransom