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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 11, 2023
Marquis G. Waller, Louisville, CO (US);
Gerald Donald Boldt, Longmont, CO (US);
Tadao Yamasaki, Boulder, CO (US);
Steve Cousins, Boulder, CO (US);
Marquis G. Waller, Louisville, CO (US);
Gerald Donald Boldt, Longmont, CO (US);
Tadao Yamasaki, Boulder, CO (US);
Steve Cousins, Boulder, CO (US);
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
System, method, and software of providing a printing service. In one embodiment, a printing system comprises a cloud printing service that stores device capability information for different types of printers supervised by a print server. The cloud printing service receives a print job, identifies a plurality of the printers that are capable of printing the print job based on the device capability information, and transforms printable content and control data of the print job into a plurality of printer-specific print streams. Each of the printer-specific print streams is in a printable output format for one of the plurality of the printers. The cloud printing service provides one or more of the printer-specific print streams to the print server.