Patent ID: 6525831
Filing Date: 2003-02-25
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A printing system that distributes documents among a plurality of printers in a networked printing system comprising:a spooler that receives documents and generates a print job from each document, a page description language guesser having a plurality of page description language analyzing units on said spooler, said plurality of page description language analyzing units for sampling a data sample from said document, said data sample including command operator strings of a page description language in which said print job is written, wherein said plurality of said page description language analyzing units analyze said data sample for said command operator strings to determine said page description language, and a supervisor for forwarding said print job of said document from said spooler to one of said plurality of printers for printing said document which can print said page description language of said print job of said document wherein said plurality of said page description language analyzing units match said command operator string from said data sample against a table of parameters and corresponding parameter designators for said page description language.