Claims
- 1. A printing system for use in printing image objects of any of a plurality of different object types, said system comprising:
a printer; and a printer control device with a user interface having a first option for associating printer-independent print-quality characteristics with a selected object type to be printed by said printer.
- 2. The printing system of claim 1, wherein said user interface includes a dialog screen having a control for invoking said first option for associating printer-independent print-quality characteristics with a selected object type to be printed by said printer.
- 3. The printing system of claim 1, wherein said user interface further includes a second option for associating object descriptors with a selected object type and wherein, responsive to selection of an object descriptor, said second option associates printer-independent print-quality characteristics with said selected object descriptor.
- 4. The printing system of claim 3, wherein said user interface includes a dialog screen having a first control for invoking an option of automatically associating said object descriptors with said printer-independent print-quality characteristics in accordance with a set of predetermined associations and a second control for manually associating said object descriptors with said printer-independent print-quality characteristics.
- 5. The printing system of claim 3, further comprising a third option for defining a custom object descriptor.
- 6. The printing system of claim 4, further comprising a third option for saving a set of associations.
- 7. The printing system of claim 6, further comprising a fourth option for selecting a default configuration of associations.
- 8. A method for controlling the quality of printing of a composite document having different types of objects, comprising:
providing a list of object types; providing a list of printer-independent print-quality characteristics; selecting an object type from the list of object types; and associating at least one printer-independent print-quality characteristic with the selected object type to be printed by said printer.
- 9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:
providing a list of object descriptors; selecting an object descriptor; and associating at least one printer-independent print-quality characteristics with said selected object descriptor.
- 10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:
defining a custom object descriptor; adding the custom object descriptor to the list of object descriptors; and associating at least one printer-independent print-quality characteristics with said custom object descriptor.
- 11. The method of claim 8, further comprising saving a set of associations.
- 12. The method of claim 11, further comprising loading said saved set of associations.
- 13. 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.