Appeal No. 2001-0865
Application 08/998,781
printer (claims 1, 3, 5, and 7) and it never describes that a
print environment recognition operation commences before the
expiry of the transmission time, wherein the transmission time is
the time required to transmit data to a printer (claim 13)
(Br12); i.e., it does not teach difference (3).
The examiner finds that Saruwatari teaches (abstract;
col. 1, lines 60-65) detecting environmental conditions such as
temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure at the time of
forming an image, which the examiner interprets to be the print
recognition time (EA4). Thus, the examiner states, "Saruwatari
has at least disclosed the claim limitation 'a detection of the
environmental conditions is to be performed at a print
recognition time' and the print recognition time is the time that
the image forming apparatus forms an image" (EA9). Presumably,
the examiner refers to the limitation "performing a print
environment recognition operation at a print recognition time."
The examiner states that in order to form an image in
Zimmerman, image data would have to be transmitted from the host
to the printer and, therefore, the image forming time would have
to depend on (be determined by) the transmission time, and the
print environment recognition operation would be performed during
that transmission time (EA4-5; EA9). It is further stated that
the "optimum" time for a printer to print a page is the time
(transmission time) that it takes to transmit the print data for
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