Java printer

• US 6,628,413 B1
• Filed: 05/14/1997
• Issued: 09/30/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Lee, Kanghoon
• Primary Examiner(s): GARCIA, GABRIEL I
• Application Number:
  US08/856,183
• Time in Patent Office: 2,330 Days
• Field of Search: 395/101, 395/102, 395/106, 395/112, 395/114, 395/117, 395/200.3, 395/200.6, 395/680, 395/681, 395/285, 395/527, 358/501, 358/502, 358/503, 358/401, 358/1.1, 358/1.2, 358/1.6, 358/1.13, 358/1.15, 358/1.18, 709/201, 709/202, 709/223, 709/310, 709/321, 709/218, 709/219, 710/105, 710/107
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• 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 3/1253 Configuration of print job parameters, e.g. using UI at the client
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1255 Settings incompatibility, e.g. constraints, user requirements vs. device capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1287 via internet
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/00 Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data , e.g. computer output printersprinting or plotting combined with another operation, e.g. with conveying, G06K17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 2215/0011 characterised by a particular command or data flow, e.g. Page Description Language, configuration commands

Abstract

A method and system for printing documents based on Java commands. A Java printer receives page layout requests and converts the requests into a rasterized image which is transferred to a recording medium. Page layout can be interactively modified. The Java printer also monitors print requests and is configurable using a World Wide Web interface.

Claims

1. A computer program product, comprising:

a computer storage medium and a computer program code mechanism embedded in the computer storage medium for causing a printer to control rasterization of an image, the computer program code mechanism comprising;

a first computer code device configured to receive a print request as a series of method invocations using commands in a Java object oriented language syntax;

a second computer code device configured to rasterize the print request into an image; and

a third computer code device configured to output the image on a recording medium.

2. The computer program product as claimed in claim 1, wherein the third computer code device comprises a fourth computer code device configured to receive an end of page method invocation and to output the image after receiving the end of page method invocation.