Professional office system printer support for personal computers
CA 1303232 C · Owner: Mitchell, Michael O. · Inventors: Mitchell, Michael O.; Mcglynn, Kevin P.
Overview
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A printer support utility provides full support for all compatible printers attached to personal computers operating in a professional office system environment. The utility provides an interface that interprets ANSI printable data and restructures the data to allow for improved printing of underscore, overstrike and highlight especially in non-impact printers such as laser printers and ink jet printers. The utility reads each line of printable data from an input file and tests the line for a line control indicating a new print line. If not a new print line, the utility scans the line for underscoring overstriking and highlighting of characters; but if a new print line, the utility converts …
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- Granted June 9, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended June 9, 2009.
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