Printing system
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTsuyoshi Yamanaka
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Abstract
When a printing operation is executed according to an application program, the environment set section 70 of the printer driver is called at a predetermined timing to obtain the information on an output port (S2) and, if the output port is ready (S3: YES) and the data transmission interval between the latest data transmit time set in the data transmit time control section 73 and the present time is more than a reference time (S4, S5: YES), the wake-up command transmission section 72 is caused to transmit an automatic wake-up command to the laser printer 40 during a sleep mode.
Claims20
A printing system comprising a computer system which executes various application programs and a printer which enters a sleep mode when no print data is transmitted thereto from the computer system for more than a predetermined sleep time, the system further comprising:
- means for starting an application program of the various application programs;
- means for selecting a printer driver that corresponds to the printer;
- means for calling the printer driver;
- means for detecting that the printer driver has been called at a time of a preparatory operation of printing performed before a print start command is generated;
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- means for transmitting a wake-up command to the printer that had been in a sleep mode when the means for detecting detects that the printer driver has been called, such that the wake-up command is issued prior to the start command being generated.
A printing system comprising a computer system which executes various application programs and a printer which enters a sleep mode when no print data is transmitted thereto from the computer system for more than a predetermined sleep time, the system further comprising:
- a starting device that starts an application program of the various application programs;
- a selector that selects a printer driver that corresponds to the printer;
- a calling device that calls the printer driver;
- a call detector for detecting that the printer driver has been called at a time of a preparatory operation of printing performed before a print start command is generated;
- and
- a transmitter for transmitting a wake-up command to the printer that had been in a sleep mode when the call detector detects that the printer driver has been called, such that the wake-up command is issued prior to the start command being generated.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.