Appeal No. 2003-0549 Page 2
Application No. 09/149,408
printing methods and can incorporate advanced operations to facilitate the assembly of
complex documents. (Id. at 2.)
Computer printers can be equipped to perform operations beyond converting an
electronic page of text or graphics to a printed page. Selecting printing stock; printing in
duplex (two-side) or simplex (single-side) mode; and printing multiple pages on a single
sheet of paper exemplify the special printing operations available with certain printers.
Such operations alter the operation of a printer's printing and paper handling
mechanisms to produce the changes needed to convert a formatted electronic
document to a printed output with the desired printer applied formatting. (Id. at 3.)
Because such operations alter operation of these mechanisms, explain the appellants,
selected operations will apply to the entirety of a print job and will persist for subsequent
print jobs until a user resets the associated options. (Id. at 3-4.) Because the
formatting of the electronic document and the operation of the printer's mechanisms to
produce the special printing operations are controlled by separate programs, they add,
some printing operations are difficult or impossible without modifying the original
electronic document from the associated application program. For example, inserting a
blank page in an "as printed" document requires a user to insert a blank page in the
original electronic document via the application program. (Id. at 4.)
Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Next
Last modified: November 3, 2007