Method, system, and program for responding to an acknowledgement request from a printer driver

A system for interfacing with a printer driver, comprising:

• a printer interface enabled to cause operations to be performed, the operations comprising:
• receiving data transmitted from the printer driver;
• receiving an acknowledgment request from the printer driver, wherein the printer driver does not send further data to print until receiving an acknowledgment reply indicating that the transmitted data passed an initial check, wherein the initial check comprises checking the received data for an error condition;
• transmitting an acknowledgment reply to the printer driver in response to the acknowledgment request before completing the initial check of the sent data to cause the printer driver to send further data before the transmitted data has passed the initial check;
• resynchronizing data processing operations in response to detecting an error in the received data;
• and
• a rasterizer for rasterizing and outputting the data.

An article of manufacture comprising at least one of a hardware device having hardware logic and a computer readable storage medium having computer instructions executed by a processor for causing operations to be performed to interface with a printer driver, wherein the article of manufacture further causes operations to be performed, the operations comprising:

• receiving data transmitted from the printer driver;
• receiving an acknowledgment request from the printer driver, wherein the printer driver does not send further data to print until receiving an acknowledgment reply indicating that the transmitted data passed an initial check, wherein the initial check comprises checking the received data for an error condition;
• transmitting an acknowledgment reply to the printer driver in response to the acknowledgment request before completing the initial check of the sent data to cause the printer driver to send further data before the transmitted data has passed the initial check;
• resynchronizing data processing operations in response to detecting an error in the received data;
• and
• rasterizing and outputting the data.