Patent ID: 8446631
Filing Date: 2013-05-21
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A method for minimizing how many physical pages are used to print a poster document, comprising: receiving, at a printer driver, a print job comprising a document; receiving, at the printer driver, a request to print the document as a poster document, wherein a logical page of the poster document has greater dimensions than a physical page on which the poster document is to be printed; formatting, at the printer driver, the poster document for printing on an initial physical paper size, wherein the poster document requires more than one physical page for printing if the poster document is printed on paper having the initial physical paper size; determining, at the printer driver, whether a physical paper size that is supported by a target printing device separate from the printer driver is larger than the initial physical paper size; and if, after a comparison by the printer driver of the initial physical paper size and the physical paper size that is supported by the target printing device, the physical paper size that is supported by the target printing device is larger than the initial physical paper size, and if formatting the poster document for printing on the larger paper size rather than the initial paper size reduces the number of physical pages required to print the poster document, and if it is determined that a user wants to print on the physical paper size that is supported by the target printing device rather than the initial physical paper size, then reformatting, by the printer driver, the poster document for printing on the larger physical paper size, wherein the reformatting of the poster document for printing on the larger physical paper size occurs after the printer driver receives the print job.