US 11,893,294 B2Granted

Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and printing system

AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorYoshito Hosomizo

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Abstract

A printing system includes a printer and an information processing apparatus which communicates with the printer. The information processing apparatus transmits a printing capability information request to the printer. The printer transmits the printing capability information of the printer to the information processing apparatus, in response to the printing capability information request. The information processing apparatus is configured to receive the printing capability information transmitted from the printer, receive an input of a print quality setting corresponding to the printing capability information, determine a corresponding data correction manner based on a receiving result in the receiving of the input of the print quality setting, acquire intermediate print data from a general-purpose printing program incorporated in an operating system of the information processing apparatus, generate, using the intermediate print data, print output data based on the data correction manner, and transmit the print output data to the printer.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a support program executable by a computer of an information processing apparatus and used for printing using a printer connected to the information processing apparatus, the support program comprising instructions that, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to perform:

acquiring, from the printer, printing capability information of the printer;
displaying a print quality setting corresponding to the printing capability information on a display unit of the information processing apparatus;
receiving an input of a print quality setting corresponding to the printing capability information, the input of the print quality setting corresponding to the display on the display unit;
notifying a general-purpose printing program of a receiving result in the receiving of the input of the print quality setting;
determining a corresponding data correction manner, based on a receiving result in the receiving of the input of the print quality setting;
acquiring intermediate print data generated by the general-purpose printing program incorporated in an operating system of the information processing apparatus, the intermediate print data corresponding to the receiving result;
correcting the intermediate print data based on the data correction manner to make corrected intermediate print data;
generating, using the corrected intermediate print data, print output data to be output to the printer based on the data correction manner;
and
outputting the print output data to be transmitted from the information processing apparatus to the printer as a destination.

7 more elements

A printing system comprising:

a printer;
and
an information processing apparatus having a controller and a communication interface that communicates with the printer,
wherein the controller of the information processing apparatus is configured to be executable with an instruction which causes the information processing apparatus to transmit a printing capability information request for requesting printing capability information of the printer to the printer,
wherein the printer is configured to be executable with an instruction which causes the printer to transmit the printing capability information of the printer to the information processing apparatus, in response to the printing capability information request, and
wherein the controller of the information processing apparatus is configured to be further executable with instructions which cause the information processing apparatus to perform:
receiving and acquiring the printing capability information transmitted from the printer;
displaying a print quality setting corresponding to the printing capability information on a display unit of the information processing apparatus;
receiving an input of a print quality setting corresponding to the printing capability information, the input of the print quality setting corresponding to the display on the display unit;
notifying a general-purpose printing program of a receiving result in the receiving of the input of the print quality setting;
determining a corresponding data correction manner, based on a receiving result in the receiving of the input of the print quality setting;
acquiring intermediate print data generated by the general-purpose printing program incorporated in an operating system of the information processing apparatus the intermediate print data corresponding to the receiving result;
correcting the intermediate print data based on the data correction manner to make corrected intermediate print data;
generating, using the corrected intermediate print data, print output data to be output to the printer based on the data correction manner;
and
transmitting the print output data to the printer.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/057,412Filed 21 Nov 2022
Priority: JP 2021-19302329 Nov 2021
Published: US 2023/0168850 A11 Jun 2023
Granted: 6 Feb 2024
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Classification10 codes

G06F 3/1208
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours,…
G06F 3/1253
Print job management: configuration of print job parameters, e.g. using UI at the client
G06F 3/1205
Improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management: resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings,…
G06F 3/1228
Client or server resources management: printing driverless or using generic drivers