Patent ID: 7861165
Filing Date: 2010-12-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing method for printing a web page accessed from a computer operatively connected to a web, the printing method comprising: a) a user of the computer accessing the web page using the computer operatively connected to the web, the web page displayed on a display associated with the computer; b) the user of the computer selectively initiating the execution of a program to print the displayed web page on the printing device using a portrait format or a landscape format, the user providing no instructions to the program which format to use to print the web page on the printing device; c) the program capturing the content of the web page; d) the program generating a portrait formatted representation of the captured content of the web page and generating a landscape formatted representation of the captured content of the web page; e) the program determining if the portrait formatted representation and the landscape formatted representation have equivalent content; f) the program outputting the portrait formatted representation of the web page to the printing device if the portrait formatted representation has the equivalent content of the landscape formatted representation, otherwise the program outputting the landscape formatted representation of the web page to the printing device; and g) the printing device printing the web page using the outputted representation.