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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2008
Richard A. Sloan, Jr., Southbury, CT (US);
David G. Collings, Shelton, CT (US);
John R. Lepage, Woodbury, CT (US);
Richard A. Sloan, Jr., Southbury, CT (US);
David G. Collings, Shelton, CT (US);
John R. LePage, Woodbury, CT (US);
Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT (US);
Abstract
Printing systems and methods for user-selectable dynamic soft font and print stream data template control processing in a printer driver are provided. The system utilizes a print job driver screen that provides the user with a selectable option to convert soft fonts into graphics that are transferred to the printer. When using multi-byte fonts, and in particular when using multi-byte fonts in a character mangling operating system, printer memory may be rapidly allocated and consumed. However, soft fonts persist in printer memory for the length of the print job. The printer system provided herein allows the user to dynamically select an option to forgo soft font loading for the entire print job and instead transmit appropriate font graphics that are discarded from memory after use after a character threshold has been reached.