Method and system for saving and restoring printer control panel settings
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1. A method for saving and restoring printer control settings, comprising:
- selecting control settings for a printer using a control panel of said printer;
executing a printer control program for determining said selected control settings for said printer; and
saving said selected control settings to a media storage device.
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Abstract
A document production system for setting, controlling, querying and saving printer control settings is provided. Based upon user selected control settings for a single printer, control settings for multiple printers or groups of printers may be manually or automatically set to preserve the selected control settings.
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1. A method for saving and restoring printer control settings, comprising:
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selecting control settings for a printer using a control panel of said printer;
executing a printer control program for determining said selected control settings for said printer; and
saving said selected control settings to a media storage device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A method for saving and restoring printer control settings, comprising:
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executing a printer control program for creating and saving printer control settings;
using said printer control program to select at least one printer associated with said printer control program;
retrieving available control settings for said at least one selected printer;
displaying said retrieved available control settings for selection by a user;
selecting desired control settings from said retrieved available control settings;
saving said selected desired control settings; and
updating said at least one selected printer with said desired control settings. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A document production system for setting and maintaining printer control settings, comprising:
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at least one printer for printing documents conforming to stored control settings stored in a memory of said at least one printer; and
a printer control program for retrieving control settings from said at least one printer, saving control settings, downloading control settings, and updating control settings in said memory of said at least one printer. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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