Information processing apparatus, recording medium, and information processing method

A non-transitory computer readable recording medium that stores Custom Printer Properties that is an application program that configures v4 Universal Printer Driver (UPD), the Custom Printer Properties causing a processor of a computer including

• a communication interface configured to execute communication with a printer, and
• a memory that stores
• v4 printer driver architecture including
• Queue Property Bag (QPB) that is a queue-based general storage containing information on a specific queue of a specific printer model,
• Driver Property Bag (DPB) that is a model-specific storage containing information on the specific printer model,
• Print Capabilities that is a format that represents possible print settings for the specific printer model,
• common Print Ticket that is a format that represents current print settings, and
• Printer Extension that is an application program providing a user interface (UI),
• to
• (1a) open the Printer Extension, and load the current print settings from the common Print Ticket,
• (1b) create model-specific DPB in queried from DPB collection, the DPB collection being collection of DPBs for printer drivers installed in the information processing apparatus,
• (1c) create model-specific QPB using existing QPB,
• (1d) create model-specific Print Capabilities using the model-specific QPB and the DPB collection,
• (1e) create model-specific Print Ticket that represents model-specific print settings using the common Print Ticket,
• (1f) pass the model-specific DPB, the model-specific QPB, the model-specific Print Capabilities, and the model-specific Print Ticket to non-UPD part of the Printer Extension, which allow the non-UPD part of the Printer Extension to display model-specific UI, and
• (1g) load the model-specific print settings from the model-specific Print Ticket, and saves the model-specific print settings.

An information processing method for an information processing apparatus including

• a communication interface configured to execute communication with a printer,
• a memory that stores
• Custom Printer Properties that is an application program that configures v4 Universal Printer Driver (UPD), and
• v4 printer driver architecture including
• Queue Property Bag (QPB) that is a queue-based general storage containing information on a specific queue of a specific printer model,
• Driver Property Bag (DPB) that is a model-specific storage containing information on the specific printer model,
• Print Capabilities that is a format that represents possible print settings for the specific printer model,
• common Print Ticket that is a format that represents current print settings, and
• Printer Extension that is an application program providing a user interface (UI), and
• a processor,
• the information processing method comprising:
• by executing the Custom Printer Properties to realize the v4 UPD by the processor,
• (1a) opening the Printer Extension, and loading the current print settings from the common Print Ticket;
• (1b) creating model-specific DPB in queried from DPB collection, the DPB collection being collection of DPBs for printer drivers installed in the information processing apparatus;
• (1c) creating model-specific QPB using existing QPB;
• (1d) creating model-specific Print Capabilities using the model-specific QPB and the DPB collection;
• (1e) creating model-specific Print Ticket that represents model-specific print settings using the common Print Ticket;
• (1f) passing the model-specific DPB, the model-specific QPB, the model-specific Print Capabilities, and the model-specific Print Ticket to non-UPD part of the Printer Extension, which allow the non-UPD part of the Printer Extension to display model-specific UI;
• and
• (1g) loading the model-specific print settings from the model-specific Print Ticket, and saving the model-specific print settings.