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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 1997
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1994
Weilin Chen, Longmont, CO (US);
James W Marlin, Longmont, CO (US);
Ronald D Parrish, Niwot, CO (US);
Frankie S Shook, Longmont, CO (US);
David E Stone, Longmont, CO (US);
IBM Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A printing system wherein pre-printing commands, print data, and post-printing commands are nested in a data stream, the commands bounding a group of print data pages in the data stream, the group of pages containing one or more page data blocks, and the commands defining one or more operations to be performed relative to the group of pages. Groups of pages are handled in accordance with the commands in the data stream, and the commands are buffered while a print processor processes the group of pages to form printed sheets therefrom.