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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2011
Hitoshi Sekine, Los Altos, CA (US);
Senthil Selvaraj, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Zhenning Xiao, Renton, WA (US);
Yaotian Wang, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Hitoshi Sekine, Los Altos, CA (US);
Senthil Selvaraj, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Zhenning Xiao, Renton, WA (US);
Yaotian Wang, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An approach is provided for printing electronic documents that provides support for all types of printer models and PDL. A printer driver is configured to interact with Web print services that provide model-specific device capabilities and render PDL on behalf of the printer driver. A printer driver receives application data from an application program. The printer driver causes the application data to be transmitted to one or more Web print services that render the application data and generate print data in a format supported by a specified printing device. The printer driver receives the print data from the one or more Web print services and causes the print data to be transmitted to the specified printing device, wherein processing of the print data at the specified printing device causes a printed version of the electronic document to be generated.