Patent ID: 7719701

Claim:
A method of operating a printing system, comprising: displaying, on a user interface, graphical representations corresponding to printing parameters available for user selection; selecting, using the user interface, settings of one or more of the printing parameters available for user selection; displaying a graphical representation of a sheet which emulates a print output having the parameters which have been selected, the graphical representation of the sheet being a different display than the graphical representations corresponding to printing parameters available for user selection; selecting, using the user interface, an alternative group of different printing parameters available for user selection; displaying, on the user interface, alternative printing parameters of the alternative group of different printing parameters available for user selection which can be selected while maintaining a display of the graphical representation of the sheet which emulates the print output having the parameters which have been selected; selecting, using the user interface, one or more of the alternative printing parameters; displaying, on the user interface, the graphical representation of the sheet having a graphical representation of the one or more alternative printing parameters which have been selected; and registering, in a computer memory, an icon which corresponds to the one or more of the alternative printing parameters which have been selected by the user interface.