System and control method for installing printer driver
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAkihiro Mitsui
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Abstract
In a system having a client and a server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the server adds to a database of a server of a first printer driver a path of a logical printer corresponding to a second printer driver. The path of the logical printer is added to the database of the first printer driver of a client by the path of the logical printer being added to the database of the server. And then, the client installs the second printer driver based on the path of the logical printer added to the database of the client by the first printer driver being operated.
Claims7
A system comprising:
- a client;
- and
- a server,
- wherein the server comprises an addition unit configured to add a path of a logical printer corresponding to a second printer driver to setting information regarding a first printer driver registered in a database of the server,
- wherein the path of the logical printer is added to setting information regarding the first printer driver registered in a database of the client by addition of the path of the logical printer to the setting information of the database of the server, and
- wherein the client comprises an installation unit configured to install the second printer driver based on the path of the logical printer added to the setting information of the database of the client by the first printer driver being operated.
A control method for a system comprising a client and a server,
- wherein the server comprises adding a path of a logical printer corresponding to a second printer driver to setting information regarding a first printer driver registered in a database of the server,
- wherein the path of the logical printer is added to setting information regarding the first printer driver registered in a database of the client by addition of the path of the logical printer to the setting information of the database of the server, and
- wherein the client comprises installing the second printer driver based on the path of the logical printer added to the setting information of the database of the client by the first printer driver being operated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.