Apparatus and method for initiating a printing operation from a printer

A printer comprises at least one print control that can be operated by a user. In response to operation of the print control, the printer generates and transmits a request from the printer to a general purpose computer that has data stored in it. The request contains information to cause the compute...

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Hauptverfasser: Brown, Mark, Skurdal, Vincent
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A printer comprises at least one print control that can be operated by a user. In response to operation of the print control, the printer generates and transmits a request from the printer to a general purpose computer that has data stored in it. The request contains information to cause the computer to execute a print operation. The printer prints the data received from the computer.