US Patent 7212297 Universal printing system

A method and system for printing content from a computing device is provided. Content from the computing device is converted to a device independent format and printed in the device independent format. The content is converted using a mark-up language, which also defines the style of the content. The converted content description format is preloaded in the computing device and is provided to the printing device. The mark-up language may be XML and the description format may be in the is in the extensible Style sheet language (“XSL”) or extensible Style sheet language Transformation (“XSLT”) format.