Printer that supports driverless printing

a driverless printing and printer technology, applied in the direction of digital output to print units, instruments, visual presentations, etc., can solve the problems of time-consuming installation operations and often a problem for computer users with printers, and achieve the effect of convenient selection of accessible printers and driverless printing

Inactive Publication Date: 2011-08-11
APPLE INC
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[0008]The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates driverless printing. This system includes a discovery component configured to identify accessible printers and to facilitate selection of an accessible printer, wherein the discovery component is also configured to obtain capability information from accessible printers. The system also includes a transpo

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Printers are often a problem for computer users.
However, the user typically has to install a printer-specific driver, which involves loading the driver from a disk or navigating to a website and downloading the driver.
Even if the printer driver is already loa

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[0026]The following description is presented to enable any person skilled in the art to make and use the disclosed embodiments, and is provided in the context of a particular application and its requirements. Various modifications to the disclosed embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the general principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments and applications without departing from the spirit and scope of the disclosed embodiments. Thus, the disclosed embodiments are not limited to the embodiments shown, but are to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and features disclosed herein.

[0027]The data structures and code described in this detailed description are typically stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, which may be any device or medium that can store code and / or data for use by a computer system. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium includes, but is not limited to, volatile ...

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The disclosed embodiments provide a printer that facilitates driverless printing. This printer includes a discovery component which is configured to communicate with a client to facilitate selection of the printer by the client. This discovery component is also configured to provide capability information for the printer to the client. The printer also includes a transport component which is configured to receive printer data from the client, and a page-description-language component which is configured to print the printer data received from the client. Note that the capability information provided to the client enables the client to generate the printer data for the selected printer without the need for the client to maintain printer-specific software or printer-specific configuration information for the selected printer.

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RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 302,916 filed 9 Feb. 2010, entitled “Walk-Up Printing without Drivers” by the same inventors as the instant application (Attorney Docket No. APL-P8977USP1). This application also claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 351,461 filed 4 Jun. 2010, entitled “Walk-Up Printing without Drivers” by the same inventors as the instant application (Attorney Docket No. APL-P8977USP2). This application also claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 378,832 filed 31 Aug. 2010, entitled “Walk-Up Printing without Drivers” by the same inventors as the instant application (Attorney Docket No. APL-P8977USP3). This application also claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61 / 302,922 filed 9 Feb. 2010, entitled “Framework that Supports Driverless Printing” by...

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IPC IPC(8): G06K15/02G06F3/12
CPCG06F3/1204G06F3/1292G06F3/126G06F3/1228
Inventor SWEET, MICHAEL R.MILLER, HOWARD
Owner APPLE INC
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