Printer driver and method of printing print data

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8432566
APP PUB NO 20090262394A1
SERIAL NO

12423534

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A printer driver conserves recording paper by removing blank space formed at the top and bottom of each page when printing. The printer driver acquires the coordinates of the top and bottom of the part of the print image, and calculates the page length required to print the middle area between the top and bottom blank space areas based on these coordinates. The print data for printing this middle area is then extracted and printed. When printing is completed, the recording paper is conveyed only the difference between the page length and the transportation distance of the recording paper to set the print head to a position separated only the page length from the printing start position of the area print data, that is, to a position touching the middle area. As a result, blank space between the middle areas of consecutively printed pages is eliminated.

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SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION1-6 SHINJUKU 4-CHOME SHINJUKU-KU TOKYO 160-8801

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Adachi, Tadashi Nagano-ken, JP 42 601
Sugimoto, Toshiyuki Nagano-ken, JP 89 620

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