US 9,001,345 B2Granted

Printing system, control method for information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for installing a printer driver

AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorHiroaki Nakata

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Abstract

In a printing system, the information processing apparatus includes: a first obtaining unit which obtains hardware information of a printing apparatus at the time of installation of a printer driver associated with the printing apparatus; a unit which decides on a printer driver to be installed from among a plurality of printer drivers that are associated with the printing apparatus and differ from one another in specifications based on the hardware information; a second obtaining unit which transmits to the printing apparatus attribute information of the printer driver that has been decided on, and obtains as a response thereto a configuration file for expanding functions of the printer driver that has been decided on; and a unit which installs the printer driver that has been decided on, and performs functional expansion for the printer driver using the obtained configuration file.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A printing system comprising a printing apparatus and an information processing apparatus,

the information processing apparatus including:
a first obtaining unit configured to obtain hardware information of the printing apparatus if a printer driver associated with the printing apparatus is installed;
a deciding unit configured to decide on a printer driver to be installed from among a plurality of printer drivers that are associated with the printing apparatus and differ from one another in specifications based on the hardware information;
a second obtaining unit configured to transmit to the printing apparatus attribute information of the printer driver that has been decided on, and to obtain as a response thereto a configuration file for expanding functions of the printer driver that has been decided on;
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a functional expansion unit configured to install the printer driver that has been decided on, and further to perform functional expansion for the printer driver using the obtained configuration file, and
the printing apparatus including a providing unit configured to provide the information processing apparatus with the configuration file that has been decided on based on the attribute information received from the information processing apparatus.

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Facts

Application: 14/316,870Filed 27 Jun 2014
Priority: JP 2013-15496225 Jul 2013
Published: US 2015/0029527 A129 Jan 2015
Granted: 7 Apr 2015
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Classification8 codes

G06F 3/1225
Client or server resources management: software update, e.g. print driver, modules, plug-ins, fonts
G06F 3/12
Input arrangements for transferring data to be processed into a form capable of being handled by the computer; Output arrangements for…: digital…
G06F 3/1203
Specifically adapted to achieve a particular effect: improving or facilitating administration, e.g. print management
G06F 3/1285
Specifically adapted to adopt a particular infrastructure: remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server