Patent ID: 7554682

Claim:
One or more processor-accessible media having at least one physical component, comprising a printer filter configuration data structure, the printer filter configuration data structure comprising: multiple filter entries; multiple printer filters, each multiple printer filter entry respectfully associated with one of the multiple filter entries and includes a filter name of the respective printer filter and a filter interface for the respective printer filter, wherein the printer filter configuration data structure stipulates an order for the multiple printer filters to form a printer filter pipeline, wherein the printer filters of the printer filter pipeline enhance printing by utilizing each of the following printer filters: a watermark filter, a selector filter, an N-up filter, a binding filter, a transparency filter, a renderer filter, an accounting filter, and a color enhancement filter, and wherein the printer filter configuration data structure is further to: verify that mating interfaces of each printer filter along the printer filter pipeline match, the mating interfaces matching when they are identical or compatible, and the mating interfaces being compatible when data formatted as one interface type is understood and correctly processed as data formatted as another interface type; determine if a non-matching mating interface between at least two printer filters is detected by the verifying; and provide a non-matching printer filter error notification when a non-matching mating interface is detected.