Patent ID: 7710586
Filing Date: 2010-05-04
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. In an IPDS Printing environment having an IPDS host computer in communication with a printer controller of a printing system, a method for supporting printer based features which change the number of physical pages printed by a print engine of the printing system, the method comprising: associating an IPDS logical page identifier (ILPID) with each physical page of a print job received from the IPDS host computer; determining a page count value based on the number of ILPIDs; and reporting (i) the determined ILPID-based page count value rather than a physical pane count value to the IPDS host computer and (ii) a select number of physical pages of the print job that are flagged as IPDS host computer generated pages, wherein the step of determining comprises: processing each physical page associated with an ILPID to determine if at least one logical page is imposed on said processed physical page; concatenating at least one ILPID associated with the at least one logical page into an ILPID associated with the corresponding physical page, if it is determined that at least one logical page is imposed on said processed physical page; and counting the complete number of ILPIDs associated with physical pages following the processing and concatenating steps to obtain the ILPID-based page count value.