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Approach for securely printing policy-enabled electronic documents based on print driver and printing device support

  • US 8,111,413 B2
  • Filed: 02/09/2009
  • Issued: 02/07/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/09/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for securely printing policy-enabled electronic documents, the computer-implemented method comprising:

  • at a client device determining whether policy-enabled printing has been specified for a particular electronic document; and

    if policy-enabled printing has been specified for the particular electronic document, thendetermining whether a print driver, installed on the client device for supporting printing for a particular printing device, is configured to support policy-enabled printing,determining whether the particular printing device is currently configured to support policy-enabled printing, andallow the particular electronic document to be processed at the client device for printing only if both the print driver is configured to support policy-enabled printing and the particular printing device is currently configured to support policy-enabled printing.

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