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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 1994
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignees:
Ricoh Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Ricoh Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
395166 ; 395107 ; 395148 ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for controlling the buffer scan and placing the origin of the buffer allows software to control laser printer hardware in such a way that the hardware can scan data in a bit map correctly and send the data to a laser printer. The present invention places the output image from Y lines below the top of the page and X dots right from the left margin.