PRINTING SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20060279770A1
• Filed: 09/09/2005
• Published: 12/14/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jun-Ho Jeon
• Original Assignee: Jun-Ho Jeon
• Inventors: JEON, JUN-HO
• Application Number:
  US11/162,440
• Publication Number:
  US 20060279770A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.150
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1232 Transmitting printer device capabilities, e.g. upon request or periodically
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1254 Automatic configuration, e.g. by driver
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server

Abstract

The printing system in accordance with the present invention includes a computer with a print setup program displaying a print command window on a monitor screen and at least one printer, each with two or more paper source cassettes, connected to the computer, wherein the print setup program detects all the printers connected to the computer and all the paper source cassettes provided to each printer and provides a number of print command execution buttons corresponding to the detected cassettes in the print command window, to let a user to select any button among the print command execution buttons, so that a user can print out from a desired cassette.

Claims

1. A printing system, comprising:

a print setup program installed in a computer for displaying a print command window on a monitor screen of the computer; and

one or more printers connected to the computer and equipped with two or more paper source cassettes for printing out from a paper source cassette among the paper source cassettes by receiving a print setup signal transmitted from the computer,

wherein the printing system detects the printers connected to the computer and the paper source cassettes employed in the detected printer and provides a plurality of print command execution commands corresponding to the paper source cassettes which are detected to within the print command window, and wherein the print command execution buttons make the corresponding paper source cassettes, respectively, to print out.

2. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the print command window additionally includes a printer display window which is provided with a setup button for setting up a property of a printer represented on the printer display window, so when the setup button is clicked information on the printer represented in the printer display window and a default setup window for setting up properties of the printer represented in the printer display window are displayed, thereby allowing a user to set paper size, print effect, print quality, and paper direction, and wherein when the print command execution button is clicked, the printer prints out in accordance with a print set value which is set using the printer display window.