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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 14, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 16, 1997
Barry Richard Cavill, Lexington, KY (US);
Lexmark International, Inc., Lexington, KY (US);
Abstract
A client/server printer driver including a client-side subsystem capable of transmitting a print job to a server-side subsystem capable of receiving the print job from the client-side and processing the print job and sending the processed data back to the client-side for output. A client/server printer driver including a client-side subsystem capable of dividing the print job into portions to be processed client-side and server-side and then transmitting the server-side portions of the job to a server-side subsystem capable of processing the client-side portions of the print job to create and receiving the processed server-side portions. The system has a server-side subsystem capable of receiving the server-side portions from the client-side subsystem and processing these portions to create processed server-side portions and transmitting the server-side portions to the client-side.