Printing apparatus, printing system, and a method for acquiring character resources of the printing system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroshi Koga
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus to be connected to a printing apparatus includes an acquisition device for acquiring font information of the printing apparatus from the printing apparatus, a determination device for determining a disposing position of characters of a document to be printed on the printing apparatus by using the font information acquired by the acquisition device, and a display for displaying the characters of the document to be printed by the printing apparatus on the display based on the disposing position determined by the determination device.
Claims16
A printing system consisting of a printer and a printer driver for analyzing character data and a parameter to be input from an application and for formulating and outputting a printing output control command to said printer, said system comprising:
- transmission means for transmitting an instruction to said printer to acquire font information;
- reception means for receiving the font information transmitted by the printer in response to the instruction to acquire the font information;
- formulating means for determining a printing form including printing positions of the character data to be input from the application based on the font information received by said reception means, and formulating a printing output control command based on that determination;
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- outputting means for outputting the printing output control command formulated by said formulating means to the printer.
A method of formulating and outputting a printing output control command of a printer driver for analyzing character data and a parameter to be input from an application, said method comprising:
- a transmission step of transmitting an instruction to a printer to acquire font information;
- a reception step of receiving the font information transmitted by the printer in response to the instruction to acquire the font information;
- a formulating step of determining a printing form including printing position of character data to be input from an application based on the font information received in said reception step, and formulating a printing output control command based on that determination;
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- an outputting step of outputting the printing output control command formulated in said formulating step to the printer.
A printer driver program product for instructing a computer to perform a method for analyzing character data and a parameter to be input from an application and for formulating and outputting a printing output control command to a printer, the method comprising:
- a transmission step of transmitting an instruction to the printer to acquire font information;
- a reception step of receiving the font information transmitted by the printer in response to the instruction to acquire the font information;
- a formulating step of determining a printing form including printing positions of character data to be input from the application based on the font information received in said reception step and formulating a printing output control command based on that determination;
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- an outputting step of outputting the printing output control command formulated in said formulating step to the printer.
A storage medium storing a printer driver for analyzing character data and a parameter to be input from an application and for formulating and outputting a printing output control command to a printer, said printer driver controlling a method comprising:
- a transmission step of transmitting an instruction to the printer to acquire font information;
- a reception step of receiving the font information transmitted by the printer in response to the instruction to acquire the font information;
- a formulating step of determining a printing form including printing positions of the character data to be input from the application based on the font information received in said reception step, and formulating a printing output control command based on that determination;
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- an outputting step of outputting the printing output control command formulated in said formulating step to the printer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.