发明名称 |
Method and apparatus for replacing a printer with a new printer of a different type |
摘要 |
A printing apparatus and method of use therefore are disclosed. The printing apparatus is usable as a replacement printer for replacing an existing printer apparatus without having to change printer drivers or make custom firmware changes in computers on a computer network. The inventive printer apparatus includes a map of source number assignments in the memory of the replacement printer apparatus for the replaced existing printer apparatus and for the replacement printer apparatus. The printing apparatus has a plurality of paper sources with each paper source being assigned a particular pre-assigned assignment code. The print request codes associated with the existing network printer being replaced must be determined. The print request codes are representative of a particular type of paper source. A map of print request codes which are sent by computers on the network for driving the existing printer are compared with the pre-assigned source number assignment of the replacement printer. If the pre-assigned source number assignment is different for any of the paper sources than the print request code, a user can change the source number assignment to agree with the print request code. These changes are placed into a table into the non-volatile memory of the printer, thereby creating a mapping of source number assignments for the new replacement printer, the old printer being replaced, and the custom firmware. The pre-assigned source number assignments can be changed using either NPA commands, the printing apparatus operations panel or using printer job language (PJL).
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申请公布号 |
US6027268(A) |
申请公布日期 |
2000.02.22 |
申请号 |
US19980066139 |
申请日期 |
1998.04.24 |
申请人 |
LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC. |
发明人 |
BISCHEL, PATRICK OSCAR;BROWN, III, JOHN KNOX;D'ALESSANDRO, KATHY SCOTT;YOHON, JR., EDWARD WILLIAM |
分类号 |
B41J11/42;(IPC1-7):B41J11/50 |
主分类号 |
B41J11/42 |
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