Abstract: A touchless motion activated printer including a housing for receiving a stock of labels supported within the housing; a controller having a computer readable medium and in communications with a display, touchless input assembly, and a printer; and, a set of computer readable instructions stored on the computer readable medium adapted for receiving input from a user, printing a label, storing the label information and ejecting the label. The printer can include an input area. The printer can be in communications with one or more of IoT device, portable computer device, local area network, wide area network, local computer server, home automation system or any combination.

Abstract: Improved techniques which enable a user of a terminal to select a printer, without a priori knowledge of available printers, for printing a print job are provided. A map indicating locations of available printing devices is retrieved from a back-end server based on user information or other information retrieved from the user, and provided to the user terminal for user selection of an appropriate printing device.

Abstract: An overall processing time to rasterize, at the first device, the electronic document to be rendered is computed. Also, a rendering time to render, at the first device, the electronic document to be rendered is computed. When the overall processing time to rasterize at the first device is greater than the rendering time to render at the first device, the electronic document to be rendered is parsed into a first document and sub-documents. A productivity capacity of each node is determined, the productivity capacity being a measured of the processing power of the node and the communication cost of exchanging information between the first device and the node. A sub-document is rasterized at a node when a productivity capacity of the node reduces the processing time to rasterize the electronic document to be rendered to be less than the computed overall processing time.

Abstract: A method for setting configuration data of a printer for a printer driver in a server is provided, in which the server is used in an image printing system that includes a client, the printer and the server including the printer driver for the printer. In the method, the server stores the configuration data obtained from the printer, and a configuration data obtaining part in the server reads the stored configuration data according to a request from the printer driver, and sends the configuration data to the printer driver.

Abstract: A preflight time estimator for a printing workflow is provided. An estimated preflight time is determined by analyzing a plurality of previously measured preflight times. The analysis may include tracking and analyzing at least one preflight attribute of a plurality of print jobs. The preflight time estimator may comprise a computer readable media including computer executable instructions for calculating the estimated preflight time. A printer configured to execute the instructions of the computer readable media is also provided.

Abstract: An internal document data structure (DOM tree) based on data described by a markup language is stored in a memory, and an internal document data structure building unit modifies the stored DOM tree in the memory according to a script. A video signal converter converts the DOM tree stored in the memory to display data for a TV screen, while a print data creation unit creates print data according to the DOM tree.