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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:
Jul. 27, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 10, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hirohiko Nakazato, Tokyo, JP;
Yukihiro Saida, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Oki Data Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
399-1 ; 399335 ; 399 24 ; 399 82 ; 399337 ; 347212 ;
Abstract
According to a first aspect of the invention, when a printer runs out of printing media while printing data supplied by a host computer on a series of pages, after being resupplied with printing media, the printer waits for the host computer to resume the sending of data before printing is resumed. According to a second aspect of the invention, before starting to prepare the data for the first page, the host computer sends the printer a warm-up command, causing the printer to commence preparations for printing.