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Method and apparatus for selecting interpreter for printer command language based upon sample of print job transmitted to printer

  • US 5,293,466 A
  • Filed: 08/03/1990
  • Issued: 03/08/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/03/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of operating a computing system comprising a host computer and a printer connected to receive an input stream of electrical signals defining a print job from said host computer encoded in any one of a plurality of printer control languages comprising the steps for:

  • causing an application program to run upon said host computer to generate a print job encoded in a selected printer control language,transmitting the print job to said printer,sampling a portion of the print job,analyzing the sampled portion of the print job using statistical techniques using stored data sets to identify the printer control language in which it is encoded, said stored data sets comprising statistical data setting forth a measure of the ability of selected n-grams occurring in print jobs to distinguish a given printer control language from all others, andinterpreting the print job in accordance with the printer control language identified by the sampling and analyzing steps.

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