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Printing system and method for controlling interface of user's

A printing system and user interface technology, applied in the direction of user interface execution, printing device, program control design, etc., can solve problems such as difficult appearance, difficulty, and misoperation of printers

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-01-21
CANON KK
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[0005] In addition, when using the latest printer driver to set new functions that cannot be supported in the old firmware, there is a possibility that the printer with the old firmware may misoperate due to receiving an unknown command.
[0006] Furthermore, it is difficult to grasp the functions implemented by the firmware only by looking at the appearance of the printer.
For this reason, it is difficult for users to easily know whether a specific function is supported

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[0027] Although a printer is described below as an example of a controlled device, if it is a controlled device equipped with updatable firmware and a control device equipped with an updatable control driver for controlling the controlled device, regardless of the control The present invention can be applied to any type of equipment and equipment to be controlled. The controlled devices include, for example, printers, scanners, digital cameras, digital video cameras, and other computer devices. As the control device, there are, for example, a personal computer, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), a digital camera that can be directly connected to a printer, and the like. This is just an example, and the present invention is not limited thereto.

[0028] FIG. 1 shows a schematic printing system of this embodiment. Client computers 101 and 102 are connected to a network printer 103 through a computer network 104 . A printer driver for controlling the network printer 103 is in...

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This disclosure relates to a technique for eliminating adverse influences when a mismatch between the firmware version of a printer and the driver version has occurred. A printer driver acquires the ID and version information of firmware from a printer. If acquisition is successful, the printer driver searches a firmware management table on the basis of the acquired firmware related information so as to check if the firmware is compatible to a new function. If the firmware is compatible to the new function, the printer driver provides a user interface that allows a setup associated with the new function; otherwise, it masks a setting control of the new function.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a method of providing a user interface for controlling a device connected to an information processing apparatus, and further relates to a method of providing a user interface depending on updatable firmware installed on the device. Background technique [0002] Among the existing printers, there are printers whose firmware can be upgraded (updated). When the firmware is upgraded, for example, new functions can be added to the printer. However, there are many cases where new functions cannot be utilized only by updating the firmware. The reason is that, since functions on the printer side are usually controlled by a printer driver operating on the computer side, new functions cannot be controlled unless the printer driver is upgraded. Therefore, the latest driver is required for the latest firmware, and conversely, the latest firmware is also required for the latest printer driver. [0003] However, even if the firmw...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F3/12G06F3/00B41J29/38G06F9/445G06F13/10
CPCG06F8/65G06F9/4443G06F9/451
Inventor 佐仓正幸
Owner CANON KK