PRINTER DRIVER CONFIGURED FOR RECEIVING PRINT IMPRESSION IDENTITY FROM A PRINTER

• US 20090080017A1
• Filed: 07/24/2008
• Published: 03/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Silverbrook, Kia, Lapstun, Paul
• Application Number:
  US12/178,640
• Publication Number:
  US 20090080017A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.150
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1206 resulting in increased flexibility in input data format or job format or job type
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1265 Printing by reference, e.g. retrieving document/image data for a job from a source mentioned in the job
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1284 Local printer device
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 19/06037 multi-dimensional coding

Abstract

A printer driver for printing a page at a printer. The printer driver is configured to: (i) receive a visual description for the page, the visual description describing a graphic impression for printing; (ii) send print data corresponding to the graphic impression to the printer; and (iii) receive a physical impression identity from the printer. The physical impression identity is encoded in a tag pattern disposed on the page printed by the printer.

Claims

1. A printer driver for printing a page at a printer, wherein said printer driver is configured to:

receive a visual description for said page, said visual description describing a graphic impression for printing;

send print data corresponding to said graphic impression to said printer; and

receive a physical impression identity from said printer,

wherein said physical impression identity is encoded in a tag pattern disposed on the page printed by the printer.

2. The printer driver of claim 1, wherein the tag pattern is a position-coding pattern identifying the physical impression identity and a plurality of locations.

3. The printer driver of claim 1, wherein said printer allocates the physical impression identity and prints the tag pattern.

4. The printer driver of claim 3, wherein said printer has a plurality of physical impression identities stored in a printer memory.

5. The printer driver of claim 1, wherein the tag pattern is pre-printed on a print substrate, and said printer reads the physical impression identity from said substrate.

6. The printer driver of claim 1, which is further configured to report the physical impression identity to a server.

7. The printer driver of claim 6, which is further configured to:

report a virtual impression identity to the server, said virtual impression identity being allocated to said page prior to printing.

8. The printer driver of claim 7, wherein the virtual impression identity is indexed to said visual description.

9. The printer driver of claim 8, wherein said virtual impression identity is further indexed to at least one of:

an input description for said page; and

at least some metadata of the page.

10. The printer driver of claim 9, wherein said input description describes a type and spatial extent of at least one interactive element on said page.

11. The printer driver of claim 9, wherein said at least some metadata is selected from the group comprising:

a path of a source document for the printed document;

a creator of the document;

a creation date and time of the document; and

a modification date and time of the document.