Printer drive configuration method and device, printer and storage medium

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a printer drive configuration method and device, a printer and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of printers. The method comprises the following steps: establishing a USB connection with an upper computer, and accessing a printing device to the upper computer; in a USB connection state, detecting a first operation instruction which is sent by a user and is used for carrying out driving configuration on the upper computer; in response to the first operation instruction, switching the own access state from the printing device to a USB mass storage device, wherein in the access state of the USB large-capacity storage device, a readable and writable area used for storing drive configuration information is preset in a FLASH space of the printer; and receiving an access request of the upper computer, and running the drive configuration information stored in the readable and writable area, so that the upper computer downloads a corresponding drive program according to the drive configuration information. According to the invention, a user can carry out printing drive configuration conveniently, and the real-time performance of printing data transmission is improved.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to the technical field of printers, in particular to a printer driver configuration method, device, printer and storage medium. Background technique [0002] At present, when most of the printer products on the market are connected to a PC for printing, the system cannot automatically search for and download and install the driver required for the printer, and the customer needs to manually operate one by one to connect to the specified website to find the driver suitable for the product. Use after downloading and installing. In the same way, the same steps need to be performed for firmware update of the product. Due to the many models of printers produced by the manufacturer, and there are multiple versions at the same time, the user has just come into contact with the product, and there are problems such as not knowing the model of the product, not knowing which version of the driver and firmware to use, resulting in dr...

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Problems solved by technology

However, the way of storing the driver in the removable read-only memory requires a larger internal storage space, which increases the cost of the printer

Moreover, general printer products have only one external interface (usually a USB interface), and one interface is multiplexed as a removable read-only memory data transmission channel and a printing data transmission channel, which will inevitably reduce the real-time performance of printing data transmission and cause printing freezes

The reason is that the mounted removable read-only memory occupies the data transmission bandwidth due to the sporadic and frequent scanning and access of a large number of protection processes in the PC operating system.

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