Patent ID: 8941882
Filing Date: 2015-01-27
Classification: G03G,G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing method on a printing device, comprising: receiving, at a print engine of the printing device, interim data from a host machine, the interim data comprising printer ready image data and a print engine control command wherein the print engine control command comprises a toner operation command or a resolution command indicative to modify at least a part of the printer ready image data; determining a print quality mode, selected from a plurality of print quality modes, based on the print engine control command identified from the interim data; and rendering according to the determined print quality mode, by the print engine of the printing device, an image corresponding to the printer ready image data identified from the interim data, wherein each of the plurality of print quality modes corresponds to a different modification of the rendering of the image that corresponds to the printer ready image data, wherein the interim data is generated by the host machine by: wherein the printer ready image data is generated to have a first number of bits per plane pixel, and the interim data is generated to have a second number of bits per plane per pixel that is lower than the first number of bits per plane per pixel and higher than one bit per plane per pixel.