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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2007
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2001
Todd Mark Kelsey, Rochester, MN (US);
Todd Mark Kelsey, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for controlling printable content from textual and graphical sources, and reducing consumable print medium such as toner, ink, and paper. The method and apparatus includes a print medium formatting program for configuring data identification options and print options via at least one graphical user interface (GUI) generated by a print option formatting module. The configured data identification options and print options are then stored in one or more print configuration data files. A print monitoring module monitors for a print request. The print medium formatting program intercepts the print request and matches data identification from a spooled print file, which is generated from the print request, with the stored data identification options. If the print medium formatting program finds a match, a transforming program module transforms the spooled print file in accordance to the print options, and then prints the transformed print file to an output device.