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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2003
John P. Daly, Eagle, ID (US);
James S. Boyce, Meridian, ID (US);
Elliot Lee Klosterman, Boise, ID (US);
John P. Daly, Eagle, ID (US);
James S. Boyce, Meridian, ID (US);
Elliot Lee Klosterman, Boise, ID (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A printer driver uses filters that are operating system-independent and printer-independent. Print requests and corresponding print data are received by the printer driver and converted into an internal representation that is both operating system-independent and printer-independent. The data to be printed is then passed through a print pipeline where one or more of a plurality of print filters are applied to the data. As a final stage in the print pipeline, the data is converted to a printer-dependent representation. In one embodiment, one or more of the plurality of filters used in the print pipeline are stored in a dynamic link library (DLL).