Computer program product, information processing apparatus, printer, and system
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorHiroto Kobayashi
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Abstract
A set of files making up a plug-in that is to be added to a base printer driver is stored all together in a single plug-in storage file. While no plug-in is added, the plug-in storage file is kept empty. A file making up the printer driver and the plug-in storage file are included as printer driver configuration files, and are described in a file list in a driver information file. When the printer driver is copied to a client computer, the files making up the printer driver and the plug-in storage file are transferred, following the descriptions in the file list.
Claims13
A computer program product comprising a computer-usable medium having computer-readable program codes embodied in the medium for installing a plug-in that adds a function to a printer driver, the program codes when executed causing a computer to execute:
- storing a file that makes up a plug-in that is to be newly added to the printer driver in a plug-in storage file without changing a file name of the plug-in storage file, wherein
- a file name of a file making up a main part of the printer driver and the file name of the plug-in storage file storing therein the plug-in adding a function to the main part of the printer driver are described, as file names of files making up the printer driver, in a printer driver configuration information file in advance, and
- the printer driver configuration information file is referred by an operation system to obtain the file names of the files making up the printer driver upon copying the files making up the printer driver to a different information apparatus and installing the printer driver to the different information apparatus.
An information processing apparatus that installs a plug-in adding a function to a printer driver, the information processing apparatus comprising:
- a storage unit that stores therein a file that makes up a plug-in that is to be newly added to the printer driver in a plug-in storage file without changing a file name of the plug-in storage file, wherein
- a file name of a file making up a main part of the printer driver and the file name of the plug-in storage file storing therein a plug-in adding a function to the main part of the printer driver are described, as file names of the files making up the printer driver, in a printer driver configuration information file in advance, and
- the printer driver configuration information file is referred by an operation system to obtain the file name of the file making up the printer driver upon copying the file making up the printer driver to a different information apparatus and installing the printer driver to the different information apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.