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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2000
Charles David Johnson, Boulder, CO (US);
Russel Neil Miller, Boulder, CO (US);
Larry David Teklits, Loveland, CO (US);
Charles David Johnson, Boulder, CO (US);
Russel Neil Miller, Boulder, CO (US);
Larry David Teklits, Loveland, CO (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for concurrently spooling and despooling print jobs, which allows print data associated with a print job to be despooled from storage at the same time that additional print data associated with the print job is spooled onto storage. Print jobs are received and storing of the print job is initiated. The portion of the print data that has been stored is concurrently read from the storage device, and sent to the print engine, thereby allowing the print job to be printed as the print job is being stored onto the storage device.