Printing System and Information Processing Apparatus

A printing system comprising:

• an information processing apparatus having a first printer driver operating in a course of preparing general print data having a basic instruction;
• an image forming apparatus performing print operation based on print data including the general print data prepared by the information processing apparatus;
• and
• a printer driver storage device storing a second printer driver operating in a course of preparing specific print data having an instruction specialized for the image forming apparatus,
• wherein the information processing apparatus further comprising:
• a printer driver acquisition unit acquiring the second printer driver stored in the printer driver storage device;
• a printer connection detection unit allowing a user to select whether or not to acquire the second printer driver in a case of detecting connection with the image forming apparatus, allowing the printer driver acquisition unit to acquire the second printer driver based on a selection made by the user, and allowing one of the first and second printer drivers to correspond to the image forming apparatus;
• and
• a print data preparation unit preparing the print data using at least one of the respective first and second printer drivers corresponded by the printer connection detection unit.