Garrett L Thompson

US Patent:

20030090708, May 15, 2003

Filed:

Oct 26, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/065528

Inventors:

Carl Dennison - Longmont CO, US
Ronald Heiney - Longmont CO, US
Brian Moroney - Longmont CO, US
Dwight Palmer - Longmont CO, US
Adam Swartz - Thornton CO, US
Garrett Thompson - Longmont CO, US
John Walker - Boulder CO, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

B41J001/00
G06F015/00

US Classification:

358/001150

Abstract:

A print job is preferably displayed using a visual job ticketing application. An operator is enabled to create multiple job tickets describing print parameters to be applied to the print job. Using the visual job ticketing application, the operator may select a previously created job ticket to be used to display and/or print the print job. Alterations made to the print job are automatically propagated across all associated print job tickets. When creating new print job tickets, the operator may choose to start with a blank job ticket, a default job ticket, the last active job ticket or any previously created job ticket.

US Patent:

20050179921, Aug 18, 2005

Filed:

Oct 25, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/065526

Inventors:

Craig Brossman - Boulder CO, US
Carl Dennison - Longmont CO, US
Ronald Heiney - Longmont CO, US
Brian Moroney - Longmont CO, US
Dwight Palmer - Longmont CO, US
Adam Swartz - Thornton CO, US
Garrett Thompson - Longmont CO, US
John Walker - Boulder CO, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F015/00

US Classification:

358001130, 358001900

Abstract:

A user is allowed to select desired options with respect to a print source file in a device independent manner. Selected options are stored in a device-independent way in a job ticket. When a printer is selected, the print application according to the invention reads the job ticket and a printer capability file (associated with the selected printer), converts the device-independent attributes from the job ticket into device specific printer commands from the capability file, and incorporates the printer commands into the printable format, as appropriate for the file.