Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.p.

Tracy Freeman

Alan J Oyama

Anjaneyulu Seetha Rama Kuchibhotla

Dinesh Mandalapu

James S Boyce

Kimberly A Salisbury

Dale A Saur

A document scanner comprises a scan bed, and a processor means which is adapted to: analyse a scanned image to detect one or more defined markings on the scanned document in addition to and adjacent the document content desired to be scanned by the user; and in response to detection of one or more defined markings, to control the document scanner in response to the defined markings.

Simplified operation of scan based devices

A system for processing a print job stores the print job on a first device. A pointer is provided to a printing device, which notifies the printing device that the print job is waiting to be processed. The pointer also identifies the name and location of the print job stored on the first device. When the printing device is ready to process the print job, the printing device retrieves the print job from the first device using the pointer. Additionally, the printing device may retrieve a particular font prior to processing the print job.

Indirect processing of print jobs

A method of providing print job attributes for later access before printing of the job includes collecting and storing print job attributes of the print job in a manner that makes them accessible for viewing. The attributes may later be viewed in response to a user query of a stored print job. From the attributes, a user can determine when and whether the stored print job should be printed. The collected attributes may also be used to determine the order of printing jobs stored in a print queue.

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Boise, ID, United States of America

Tracy Freeman