Appeal No. 2001-0843
Application No. 08/945,415
The claimed invention relates to a method of printing a
multi-page job in which separate non-bit mapped files for
each page of the job are produced. Further, a separate page
file for each page of the print job is produced and stored
in memory, the stored page files being subsequently printed
in sequence.
Claim 1 is illustrative of the invention and reads as
follows:
1. A method of printing a multi-page job
comprising:
producing separate non-bit mapped files for each
page of the multi-page job;
producing a page file for each page of the multi-
page job;
storing the page files in a memory; and
printing the page files in sequence.
The Examiner relies on the following prior art:
Takayanagi et al. (Takayanagi) 5,619,623 Apr. 08, 1997
(filed Sep. 15, 1994)
Deschuytere 5,758,042 May 26, 1998
(effectively filed Jul. 06, 1994)
Shope et al. (Shope) WO 88/10477 Dec. 29, 1988
(published World Intell. Prop. Org. Patent Application)
Claims 1-7 and 14-18 stand finally rejected under
35 U.S.C. § 103(a). As evidence of obviousness, the
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