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Printer/facsimile driver

  • US 5,784,177 A
  • Filed: 05/30/1995
  • Issued: 07/21/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/30/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for calling a printer/facsimile driver to automatically generate and output facsimile cover sheet information and a facsimile document, the method comprising the steps of:

  • preparing a facsimile document to be faxed;

    invoking a facsimile dynamic link library which operates to create, by using facsimile dynamic link libraries, facsimile cover sheet data, and to call a printer driver to render a body of the facsimile document;

    rendering the facsimile document;

    spooling the rendered facsimile document from the printer driver to a memory and returning the number of rendered document pages to the printer/facsimile driver;

    recalling the printer driver to render the facsimile cover sheet data and transmitting to the printer driver the created cover sheet data including the number of rendered document pages together with a fax flag indicator;

    rendering the facsimile cover sheet information in accordance with transmitted cover sheet data;

    spooling the rendered facsimile cover sheet information to the memory in accordance with the fax flag indicator; and

    retrieving the facsimile cover sheet information and facsimile document from the memory and outputting both the facsimile cover sheet information and facsimile document in Proper order, respectively.

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