Claims
- 1. A printing system, comprising:
a printer; and a printer control device for retrieving printer-independent print-quality characteristics associated with a document to be printed by said printer and for associating printer-dependent imaging actions with the printer-independent print-quality characteristics.
- 2. The printing system of claim 1, further comprising a user interface having a control for associating printer-independent print-quality characteristics with printer-dependent imaging actions.
- 3. The printing system of claim 1, further comprising a user interface having a first control for invoking an option of automatically associating printer-independent print-quality characteristics with printer-dependent imaging actions in accordance with a set of predetermined associations and a second control for manually associating printer-independent print-quality characteristics with printer-dependent imaging actions.
- 4. The printing system of claim 3, further comprising a third control for defining a custom printer-independent print-quality characteristic and for associating printer-dependent imaging actions with said custom printer-independent print-quality characteristic.
- 5. The printing system of claim 3, further comprising a third control for saving a set of associations.
- 6. The printing system of claim 5, further comprising a fourth control for loading said saved set of associations.
- 7. The printing system of claim 5, further comprising a fifth control for selecting a default configuration of associations.
- 8. A method for controlling the quality of printing, comprising:
providing a list of printer-dependent imaging actions; providing a list of printer-independent print-quality characteristics; selecting a printer-independent print-quality characteristic from the list of printer-independent print-quality characteristics; and associating at least one printer-dependent imaging action with the selected printer-independent print-quality characteristic.
- 9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:
defining a custom printer-independent print-quality characteristic; adding the custom printer-independent print-quality characteristic to the list of printer-independent print-quality characteristics; and associating at least one printer-dependent imaging action with said custom printer-independent print-quality characteristic.
- 10. The method of claim 8, further comprising saving a selected configuration of associations.
- 11. The method of claim 10, further comprising loading a saved selected configuration of associations.
- 12. The method of claim 8, further comprising providing a default configuration of associations.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This invention is related to U.S. Pat. No. 5,687,303, Printer Controller for Object Optimized Printing, U.S. Pat. No. 6,006,013, Object Optimized Printing System and Method and U.S. Pat. No. 6,256,104, Object Optimized Printing System and Method, each of which disclosure is incorporated herein by reference and made a part of this application.