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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2001
Andrew Rodney Ferlitsch, Tigard, OR (US);
Jerry Steven Orleck, Portland, OR (US);
Mary Louise Bourret, Portland, OR (US);
Andrew Rodney Ferlitsch, Tigard, OR (US);
Jerry Steven Orleck, Portland, OR (US);
Mary Louise Bourret, Portland, OR (US);
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention comprise methods and systems which enable a user to detect the status of printing devices without the use of additional hardware or application program modification for this purpose. These embodiments comprise a print processor which can check printing device status prior to sending a print task to a printing device. These embodiments may further check the status of a printing device after a print task has been sent to the device and may determine whether a printing device has successfully completed a print task. Some embodiments may further redirect, restart and reconfigure print tasks with the help of printing device status information.