Printer directed image decompression

[0026] The particular values and configurations discussed in these non-limiting examples can be varied and are cited merely to illustrate embodiments and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention.

[0027]FIG. 1 illustrates a high level flow diagram for printing a document 105 based on a description in accordance with an aspect of the embodiments. After the start 101, a description is created that contains one or more image references 102. An image reference specifies a way to obtain an image from an image server. For example, the image reference can be a uniform resource locator for obtaining the image from a web server. The image reference can also be the name of a file stored on a network file server. The description is submitted to a printer and then parsed by the printer 103. Parsing is a general term used by those skilled in the art of computer programming for reading data and preparing to make use of it. By parsing the description, the printer discovers what image refer