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Abstract

A printer/facsimile system includes a printer/facsimile driver to automatically insert a facsimile cover sheet at the beginning of a facsimile document. The system includes the process steps of preparing a document to be faxed, invoking a facsimile dynamic link library which operates to create, by using facsimile dynamic link libraries, facsimile cover sheet data, and to call a printer driver to render a body of the facsimile document, rendering the facsimile document, spooling the rendered facsimile document from the printer driver to a memory and returning the number of rendered document pages to the facsimile application, recalling the printer driver to render the facsimile cover sheet and transmitting the created cover sheet data including the number of rendered document pages together with a fax flag indicator to the printer driver, rendering the facsimile cover sheet in accordance with transmitted cover sheet data, spooling the rendered facsimile cover sheet to the memory in accordance with the fax flag indicator, and retrieving the facsimile cover sheet and facsimile document from the memory and outputting both the facsimile cover sheet and facsimile document in proper order, respectively.

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