Printer Driver History Document Combination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional printer drivers cannot combine previously printed history documents with new documents for reprinting or editing purposes, limiting the flexibility of print data management.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that includes a storage unit for history documents, a selection unit for new documents, and a generation unit to combine new and history document data, allowing users to easily edit and combine print jobs by selecting and merging document data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional printer driver technology is used to store history documents, then history printing function is achieved, but the ability to combine history documents with new documents is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges history document data with new document data into a single combined document. The generation unit combines the selected history document and new document into one integrated document, enabling both documents to be printed together as a unified output while maintaining their individual contents and structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The print data management system is enhanced to perform multiple functions: storing history documents, selecting new documents, combining both types of documents, and managing the combined output. This multi-functional approach allows the system to handle various document management tasks within a single integrated framework.
2Ease of manufacture
If XPS format is used for print data storage, then easy editing and job combination becomes possible, but compatibility with conventional history printing function is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary conversion process where history documents are retrieved and converted into XPS format with embedded print tickets. This intermediary step allows conventional history documents to be transformed into the modern XPS format, enabling them to be edited and combined like new documents while maintaining their original content and print settings.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the format parameter of history documents from conventional formats to XPS format. By converting the document format and embedding print tickets within the XPS structure, the system maintains the reliability of history document usage while gaining the editing and combination capabilities of the XPS format.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store, when document data whose storage is designated has been printed, the document data as history document data, a selection unit configured to select new document data that has not yet been printed on a sheet and the history document data stored by the storage unit, and a generation unit configured to generate a combined document by combining the new document data and the history document data selected by the selection unit.