Office automation equipment, method for mounting, repacking and upgrading drive thereof

Abstract

An office automation (OA) device and methods of installing, reinstalling, and upgrading a driver of the OA device. The OA device includes a class information storage unit to store class information based on which a host device identifies the OA device and to output class information when being accessed by the host device; an program storage unit to store a driver program and a driver installation program for the OA device; and a control unit to control the host device to access the program storage unit when the class information read from the class information storage unit by the host device is a CD-ROM class, to control the OA device to perform inherent functions of the OA device when the class information is an inherent class of the OA device, and to change the class information set in the class information storage unit to a predetermined class in response to completion of installation of the OA device driver or an external input.

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[0001] Cross references to related applications [0001] This application claims the benefits of Korean Patent Application No. 2004-34383 filed with the Korean Intellectual Property Office on May 14, 2004, and Korean Patent Application No. 2004-59389 filed on July 28, 2004, to disclose these applications The content is all introduced here for reference. Technical field The general concept of the present invention relates to an office automation (OA) device of a host device, and more specifically to an OA device and a method of installing, reinstalling and upgrading its driver, so that the driver of the OA device can be installed without storing the OA. Portable storage medium for device drivers. Background technique The OA device of the host device, particularly a printer or a multifunction device, is a device connected to and driven by the host device. In order for the host device to drive the printer or multifunction device, a driver is required. Generally, the driver is provid...

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Problems solved by technology

When a printer with a driver has a special version of the driver in the printer memory, that special version cannot be upgraded with a different version of the driver, and therefore, a different version of the driver cannot be installed

In other words, since a conventional printer with a driver has a printer driver supporting a special OS version, when the OS of the host device is upgraded, the printer driver cannot be automatically installed because the OS of the host device and the OS supported by the printer driver are different.

Therefore, when the driver stored in the printer supports a lower version of the OS such as Windows 95, this driver cannot be used on a host device that supports a higher version of the OS such as Wimdows XP

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