61 results about "Print processor" patented technology

An information processing apparatus storing information regarding a printer and a predetermined printer driver in association includes a controller configured to acquire first capability information defined by a predetermined protocol and second capability information undefined by the predetermined protocol, and store the first capability information and the second capability information having been acquired in association with the information regarding the printer, wherein, based on a storage unit storing the first capability information and the second capability information, a predetermined object is displayed in a selectable state on a display unit, and wherein, based on the displayed predetermined object being selected, an object for receiving a print setting is displayed on the display unit in accordance with the second capability information stored in association with the information regarding the printer.

An information processing apparatus capable of using information on a cut line which is a printing item that cannot be set by a printer driver and is printed on a recording medium is provided. The information processing apparatus including a printer driver includes a controller configured or programmed to function as an acquisition unit that acquires capability information on capability to perform printing on a sheet-like recording medium from a server providing a cloud print service or a printer, and a display control unit that displays a screen. The capability information includes first information on printing items capable of being set by the printer driver, and second information on a cut line, which is a printing item not capable of being set by the printer driver and is printed on the recording medium. The display control unit enables the second information to be displayed on the screen.

To enable a user to easily grasp a position where a sheet is cut.SOLUTION: A printer driver of the present invention causes an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an image forming apparatus having a cutting function of cutting a printed sheet to execute a transmission step of transmitting print data to the image forming apparatus and a reception step of receiving a setting for enabling the cutting function, and causes the information processing apparatus to display a line on an image based on the print data so that a user can identify a line on which the sheet is cut by the cutting function by receiving the setting in the reception step.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5

To provide a printer driver, an information processing method, and an information processing system that easily perform printing with high designability.SOLUTION: In an image forming system comprising a host PC and a printer, a printer driver of the host PC is provided with: a clip part designation unit that allows a user to designate watermark drawing data for clipping to be a clipping area for clipping application drawing data in an application; a print data generation unit that generates print data obtained by adding, to print data including the application drawing data, a mask start command in a mask generation start command area, a command to be the watermark drawing data for clipping in a watermark drawing data for clipping storage area, and a mask end command in a mask generation end command area, which indicate the watermark drawing data for clipping; and a print data transmission unit that transmits the print data to the printer.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 10

The objective is to provide a mechanism that allows for the rapid installation of printer drivers. [Solution] The installer 1210 is a program that installs a printer driver, which is already installed on the print server 1000 and has certificate data that proves the legitimacy of the digital signature, onto the client computer 3000. The installer 1210 causes the computer to perform a sharing determination step to determine whether the printer driver is set to be shareable with the client computer 3000, and a data generation step to generate installation data that includes certificate data from the print server 1000 and can be installed on the client computer 3000 if it is determined that the printer driver is set to be shareable.

To solve the problem that there is a risk of deteriorating printing data when conducting preview display and change of printing setting in a print processor.SOLUTION: In a printing system including an information processor capable of transmitting print jobs and a print processor, the print processor includes: reception means for receiving an operation of setting change for a received print job; and first control means for performing control so that a change content of a printing setting is transmitted to the information processor, without conducting printing according to a first print job, in the case that the printing setting has been changed according to an operation received by the reception means, with respect to the received first print job. The information processor includes: transmission means for transmitting a first print job to the print processor; reception means for receiving a change content for the first print job from the print processor; and second control means for performing control of transmitting a second print job generated in the printing setting which has been changed based on the change content, to the print processor.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 5

To deliver sharing setting information used in a plurality of information processing devices to each information processing device as needed and update it when needed to reduce an operation work load of a user in charge of setting information input operations.SOLUTION: A setting information management method includes the steps of: storing setting contents of a plurality of setting items related to a predetermined function; saving collective setting information including setting contents that are respectively set for the plurality of setting items; determining whether it is enabled that the collective setting information is commonly used in information processing devices by information of collective setting sharing, the setting contents including the information of the collective setting sharing determining whether the saved collective setting information is commonly used in the plurality of information processing devices or not; delivering the collective setting information to the plurality of information processing devices when it is enabled that the collective setting information is commonly used; and acquiring the delivered collective setting information by the information processing devices to save it as sharing setting information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 14

The invention relates to a storage medium, an information processing apparatus, and a control method thereof. A printer driver enables an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an image forming apparatus having a cutting function of cutting a sheet to be printed to operate, including: transmitting print data to the image forming apparatus; accepting a setting for enabling the cropping function; and displaying a line along which the paper is to be cut by the cutting function on an image based on print data in the information processing apparatus in such a manner that a user can recognize the line along which the paper is to be cut by the cutting function when the setting is accepted.

To provide a program for reducing the time and effort required for print settings when issuing print instructions in a chat format.SOLUTION: Provided is a program for controlling an information processing device, and the program causes a computer of the information processing device to execute: a receiving step of receiving print instructions using a chat function; an acquisition step of acquiring print settings registered by a printer driver provided in the information processing device; and a printing step of causing a printing device to print using the print settings according to the print instructions.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 11

An information processing apparatus and an information processing method that transmit information about a print job are disclosed. An information processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure acquires information about a print job generated by a printer driver in a predetermined print queue, and transmits the acquired information about the print job to an external service to aggregate information about the print job.

Information is frequently displayed on screens because it saves paper and allows for quick and easy updates. Especially with distributed information, updates can be centralized, saving not only paper but also the time and energy required for on-site visits. To simplify the display of content on the designated display devices, the invention proposes connecting the display devices via an interface to a data processing device, which communicates with the display device via a printer driver. This allows a simple printout to display an image from any software with a print function on the screen.

To provide a printer driver that enables safer printing than before even when a document filing function is set to be valid due to printing function restrictions, a printer driver processing method, and an image forming system.SOLUTION: There is provided a printer driver that can set various settings related to printing of image data for an image forming apparatus. The various settings include a setting for a document filing function for temporarily storing the image data in the image forming apparatus without printing it, and executing the printing of the image data by inputting predetermined code information in the image forming apparatus. If the document filing function is set to be valid by an administrative user with predetermined administrator authority, while hiding the setting for the document filing function on a settings screen for a non-administrative user who does not have the predetermined administrator authority, a print job to which code information for the print job is set and provided is sent to the image forming apparatus when the print job of the image data is received from the non-administrative user.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 8

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing a program for causing a computer of an information processing apparatus to perform an information processing method, the method includes receiving a print instruction using a chat function, obtaining a print setting registered by a printer driver included in the information processing apparatus, and causing a printing apparatus to perform printing based on the print setting according to the print instruction.

To provide a program for reducing the time and effort required for print settings when issuing print instructions in a chat format.SOLUTION: Provided is a program for controlling an information processing device, and the program causes a computer of the information processing device to execute: a receiving step of receiving print instructions using a chat function; an acquisition step of acquiring print settings registered by a printer driver provided in the information processing device; and a printing step of causing a printing device to print using the print settings according to the print instructions.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 11

To provide a system capable of transmitting data from each printable data processor to a display device, saving paper, quickly and easily performing a change and saving time and energy for moving to a job site.SOLUTION: In order to simplify the display of the content on the display device 20, the display device 20 is connected to the data processing device 10 via an interface 30, so that the data processing device 10 can communicate with the display device 20 via the printer driver 14 and can reproduce the information on the screen 23 by outputting the image to be displayed from any software with a printing function on the screen 23 by means of a simple output and can centrally update the information even in the case of decentralized information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing executable instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of an information processing apparatus, cause the information processing apparatus to perform a control method. The information processing apparatus is communicably connected to an image forming apparatus. The control method includes determining whether a function of blocking operations of printer drivers offered by a manufacturer of the image forming apparatus is enabled, and displaying, in a case where the function is enabled, print queues associated with the printer drivers in a gray-out state in a combo box for selecting a printing destination. The printer drivers in the gray-out state are associated with the function of blocking operations. The printer drivers in the gray-out state are unselectable.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for installing a printer driver that has been installed in a first information processing apparatus and has certificate data attached thereto, which certifies validity of a digital signature, into a second information processing apparatus communicably connected to the first information processing apparatus. Whether or not the printer driver which has been installed is set to be sharable with the second information processing apparatus is determined. In a case where it is determined that the printer driver is set to be sharable with the second information processing apparatus, a screen related to changing of setting of whether or not to perform notification concerning reliability of the printer driver when installing the printer driver into the second information processing apparatus is displayed.

The present invention provides an information processing apparatus, an installation method, and a recording medium. The information processing apparatus (1) of the present invention changes a printer queue generated at the time of USB connection with a printer (100) to a printer queue corresponding to a prescribed printer driver, in the case where it is detected that the generated printer queue is not a printer queue corresponding to the prescribed printer driver.

The invention discloses a printer driver synchronization method and system, electronic equipment and a storage medium, and belongs to the technical field of computer networks. The method comprises the following steps: in response to a printer, connecting a cloud desktop of a first resource pool, and querying whether a drive file corresponding to the printer is installed in the cloud desktop through the cloud desktop; under the condition that the driver file is not installed, sending a driver acquisition request to the cloud management platform through the cloud desktop; executing a drive synchronization process through the cloud management platform according to the equipment information; wherein the drive acquisition request comprises equipment information of the printer, and the drive acquisition request is used for triggering the cloud management platform to execute a drive synchronization process; the drive synchronization process is used for the cloud desktop of the first resource pool to obtain the drive file and execute printing operation after installation. The problems that an existing printer drive synchronization method is large in workload and complex in process can be solved.

In many cases, the information is displayed on the screen, so that paper can be saved, and the information can be conveniently and quickly changed. Particularly, under the condition that information is dispersed, the information can be updated in a centralized mode, so that paper is saved, and time and energy of field maintenance are saved. In order to simplify the presentation of content on a display device provided for this purpose, the invention proposes connecting the display device via an interface to a data processing device which addresses the display device via a printer driver. Thus, through simple printing output, the image to be presented of any software with a printing function can be output to the screen.

The invention provides a print control program product, a print control device, and a control method, and aims to solve the problem of a large expansion application program. The print control program product includes a print control program that causes a computer (2) to function as a PSA (12) that expands a general-purpose printer driver (10a). A PSA (12) includes: a print job acquisition unit (20) that acquires a print job from a general-purpose printer driver (10a); and a display control unit (21) that accepts a selection of whether or not to cause the merge print application (13) to process the print job.

The present invention provides a mechanism that enables the transmission of print jobs using a printer driver that generates print jobs in accordance with a predetermined printing protocol, and that can also appropriately transmit print jobs to printing devices that use printing protocols different from the predetermined printing protocol. [Solution] The information processing device includes a printer driver that generates print commands according to a predetermined printing protocol, one or more extension modules for generating print commands according to a printing protocol different from the predetermined printing protocol, a holding means for holding information indicating one or more modules used to generate print commands according to the other printing protocol, and an output means for outputting print commands according to the other printing protocol, which are obtained by processing the print data acquired by the printer driver with the one or more modules indicated by the information.

The present disclosure relates to a computer program product including an application program, a control method of an information processing apparatus, and an information processing apparatus. The computer program product includes an application program installed on an information processing apparatus communicably connected to a plurality of image forming apparatuses having a print function and a management server that manages information about each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses. A printer driver that controls execution of the print function in each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses is installed on the information processing apparatus. The application program causes a computer of the information processing apparatus to execute a step of determining whether at least one of the plurality of image forming apparatuses belongs to a location of the information processing apparatus, and a step of selecting one of the plurality of image forming apparatuses as a print execution apparatus that executes the print function and reflecting the print function provided in the print execution apparatus in functions controllable by the printer driver.

The utility model provides a plug-and-play POS machine. The plug-and-play POS machine comprises a main processor, a safety processor, a printing processor, an NFC module, an IC card reading module, a magnetic stripe card reading module, a wireless communication module, a camera module and a 3-inch printer module. Wherein the USB communication port of the main processor is used for being connected with the USB communication port of the electronic cash register; the first serial interface of the main processor is connected with the first serial interface of the security processor; the second serial interface of the main processor is connected with the first serial interface of the printing processor; the wireless communication module and the camera module are electrically connected to the main processor; the safety processor is electrically connected with the NFC module, the IC card reading module and the magnetic stripe card reading module at the same time; the printing processor is electrically connected to the 3-inch printer module. According to the utility model, the 3-inch printer and the POS machine are effectively combined, and are linked with the electronic cash register through the USB, so that the equipment cost is effectively reduced, the equipment use efficiency is improved, and meanwhile, the plug and play can be realized, that is, the cash register system does not need to be debugged and butted with SaaS software.

An information processing apparatus includes a first printer driver configured to generate first print data to be transmitted to an image forming apparatus according to a predetermined protocol and a second printer driver configured to generate second print data to be transmitted to a server system according to the predetermined protocol. The information processing apparatus further includes a display unit configured to display a first screen in a case where first information for transmitting the first print data is selected, and to display a second screen in a case where second information for transmitting the second print data is selected, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the first print data or the second print data.

An information processing apparatus includes a printer driver configured to generate a print command compliant with a predetermined printing protocol based on print data obtained from a data generation application, one or more extension modules configured to generate a print command compliant with another printing protocol different from the predetermined printing protocol, a storage unit configured to store information associating the one or more extension modules to be used for generating the print command compliant with said another printing protocol with the printer driver, and an output unit configured to output the print command compliant with said another printing protocol, the print command being obtained through processing of the print data obtained by the printer driver, and the processing being performed by the one or more modules indicated by the information.

An information processing apparatus includes a first printer driver configured to generate first print data to be transmitted to an image forming apparatus according to a predetermined protocol and a second printer driver configured to generate second print data to be transmitted to a server system according to the predetermined protocol. The information processing apparatus further includes a display unit configured to display a first screen in a case where first information for transmitting the first print data is selected, and to display a second screen in a case where second information for transmitting the second print data is selected, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the first print data or the second print data.

To solve the problem that a font cannot be embedded in a file of a PDF format when directly printing the file of the PDF format in which the font is not embedded by using a general printer driver.SOLUTION: An application program 312 supports print software for generating print data that can be printed by image forming apparatuses of a plurality of manufacturers and outputting the print data to the image forming apparatuses of the plurality of manufacturers, the application program 312 causing a computer to receive a setting related to conversion of a file to be printed (S312), receive a setting not to perform the conversion, and embed a font used in the file to be printed when the font is not embedded in the file to be printed (S401).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 10