公开(公告)号：US07593125B2

公开(公告)日：2009-09-22

申请号：US11123574

申请日：2005-05-06

申请人： Zhencai Wang ,  Lu-Chun Liao ,  Katherine B. Lao ,  Hong Yan

发明人： Zhencai Wang ,  Lu-Chun Liao ,  Katherine B. Lao ,  Hong Yan

IPC分类号： G06F15/00 ,  G06F15/173

CPC分类号： H04N1/00236 ,  H04N1/32523 ,  H04N1/32545 ,  H04N2201/0046 ,  H04N2201/0082 ,  H04N2201/0094

摘要： Method for efficient printing of large-volume documents to multiple printers, comprising GUI for administrators to configure a virtual port associated with physical and virtual printers; print job to a virtual printer spooled to the associated virtual port; and administrators sending spooled print job to the associated physical printers. Options include Spool without printing, Spool and print immediately, and Spool and print at a scheduled time. Printing policies include Tandem (the same copies to printers), Direct (to one printer), Broadcast (specified copies to printers), and Cluster (a print job is divided into pieces at page boundaries). Cluster dividing subpolicies match color, paper size, media type, and finishing characteristics of the pieces with the printer characteristics, and sending subpolicies optimize based on printer speeds and distribute equal number of pages. Bidirectional communication and monitoring using SNMP and PJL enable Pool (the first available printer) and Recovery (job transfer after a failure) printing policies. Methods also include job previewing and accounting.

摘要翻译： 将大容量文档高效打印到多个打印机的方法，包括用于管理员配置与物理和虚拟打印机相关联的虚拟端口的GUI; 将作业打印到假脱机的虚拟打印机到关联的虚拟端口; 并且管理员将假脱机打印作业发送到相关的物理打印机。 选项包括无打印的假脱机，立即打印和打印，并在预定的时间打印。 打印策略包括Tandem（打印机相同的副本），Direct（一台打印机），Broadcast（打印机的指定副本）和Cluster（打印作业在页面边界分割）。 集群划分子政策与打印机特性匹配颜色，纸张尺寸，介质类型和装订特性，并根据打印机速度发送子政策进行优化，并分配相同数量的页面。 使用SNMP和PJL的双向通信和监视启用池（第一个可用的打印机）和恢复（故障后的作业传输）打印策略。 方法还包括作业预览和记帐。

公开(公告)号：US20060250638A1

公开(公告)日：2006-11-09

申请号：US11123574

申请日：2005-05-06

申请人： Zhencai Wang ,  Lu-Chun Liao ,  Katherine Lao ,  Hong Yan

发明人： Zhencai Wang ,  Lu-Chun Liao ,  Katherine Lao ,  Hong Yan

IPC分类号： G06F3/12

CPC分类号： H04N1/00236 ,  H04N1/32523 ,  H04N1/32545 ,  H04N2201/0046 ,  H04N2201/0082 ,  H04N2201/0094

摘要： Method for efficient printing of large-volume documents to multiple printers, comprising GUI for administrators to configure a virtual port associated with physical and virtual printers; print job to a virtual printer spooled to the associated virtual port; and administrators sending spooled print job to the associated physical printers. Options include Spool without printing, Spool and print immediately, and Spool and print at a scheduled time. Printing policies include Tandem (the same copies to printers), Direct (to one printer), Broadcast (specified copies to printers), and Cluster (a print job is divided into pieces at page boundaries). Cluster dividing subpolicies match color, paper size, media type, and finishing characteristics of the pieces with the printer characteristics, and sending subpolicies optimize based on printer speeds and distribute equal number of pages. Bidirectional communication and monitoring using SNMP and PJL enable Pool (the first available printer) and Recovery (job transfer after a failure) printing policies. Methods also include job previewing and accounting.