107 results about "Print processor" patented technology

The invention discloses a heterogeneous instruction dynamic adaptation remote label printing method and system, a terminal and a medium. The method comprises the steps that a server side receives a printing request remotely sent by a user through terminal equipment; a target printer driver is dynamically read and loaded through a built-in equipment driver abstraction layer, and a registry of a target printer is inquired to obtain an instruction set supported by the registry; calling an adapter mode of a device driving abstraction layer to analyze the printing request, and generating label data matched with the target printer special instruction according to the label content; and the label data and the printing parameters are sent to the target printer, and label output is completed. According to the method, the pre-installed printer driver is read and matched, the unified middle layer adaptive interface is extracted from the upper layer, and instructions used by the printer do not need to be distinguished during printing, so that a user does not need to perceive the difference of the printer, the operation is simple and convenient, and the printing efficiency is improved.

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.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium provided in an information processing apparatus, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an application program supporting a printer driver that complies with an Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), wherein the application program causes the information processing apparatus to execute determining whether image data to be printed includes different document sizes; determining, upon determining that the image data includes the different document sizes, whether at least one paper sheet for each of the different document sizes included in the image data is set in a printer that performs printing of the image data; receiving, upon determining that at least one paper sheet for each of the different document sizes included in the image data is set in the printer, selection of a first setting or a second setting from a user, the first setting being configured to perform the printing with a single sheet size selected by the user, the second setting being configured to perform the printing with each of sheets according to each of the different document sizes included in the image data; and generating, in response to receiving the selection of the second setting, IPP setting information including an IPP attribute corresponding to the second setting for instructing a target printer to perform the printing.

The present disclosure provides a virtual printer program product, a print control apparatus, and a printing method, and provides a structure for performing printing implemented via a print server using a general-purpose printer driver. A virtual printer program according to one embodiment of the present disclosure causes a computer to execute a first communication process, a second communication process, and a printing process. In the first communication process, the general-purpose printer driver (16) is disguised as a printer and communicates with the general-purpose printer driver (16). In the second communication process, communication with the print server (20) is performed. In the printing process, the print job acquired from the general-purpose printer driver (16) in the first communication process is transmitted to the print server (20) in the second communication process, and a printer connected to the print server (20) via a network performs printing.

To provide a printing control program that enables printing using an image difference in an environment where printing processing is performed using a general-purpose printer driver.SOLUTION: A printing control program causes a computer to perform acquisition processing, display processing, generation processing, and instruction processing. In the acquisition processing, printing data is acquired from a general-purpose printer driver 16. In the display processing, a user interface image for allowing a user to designate additional data to be added to the printing data and an addition position of the additional data in the printing data is displayed. In the generation processing, a printing job for performing printing in which the additional data is added to the printing data at the addition position is generated. In the instruction processing, a printer is instructed to perform printing based on the printing job.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

To enhance the convenience of a printer driver.SOLUTION: When installing a printer driver 113 composed of multiple files into an administrator information processing apparatus 110, an installation unit 120 stores, among the multiple files, installation driver information 114 necessary for enabling the printer to be used with the administrator information processing apparatus 110, and separately stores temporary saving information 115 being the file different from the installation driver information 114, among the multiple files as distinguished from the installation driver information 114. A package creation unit 122 generates an installation package including the installation driver information 114 and the temporary saving information 115 for executing installation on a general user information processing apparatus.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

The present disclosure provides a print control program product, a facsimile control device, and a facsimile control method capable of implementing facsimile transmission in an environment in which print processing using a general-purpose printer driver is performed. A print control program according to one embodiment of the present disclosure causes a computer to execute a display process, an acquisition process, and an instruction process. The display process causes the setting image to be displayed in response to a request from the general-purpose printer driver (16). The acquisition process acquires a facsimile transmission destination serving as a facsimile receiver via the setting image. The instruction processing delivers print control data including a facsimile transmission destination to a general printer driver (16), and causes the general printer driver (16) to execute a print instruction which is a facsimile transmission instruction to a printer having a facsimile transmission function in accordance with the print control data.

An information processing apparatus includes a printer driver and an application. The application stores push notification information in a region in a storage unit to which the printer driver is able to refer. In a case where the application is not currently installed in an execution environment of a target account and a display condition for the push notification information is satisfied, the printer driver causes a display unit to display a push notification based on the push notification information.

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.

The present invention relates to the field of big data analysis, in particular to a Linux printer driver method and system based on a virtual machine across CPU architectures. By using the qemu virtual machine to start at least one minimal Linux environment based on the x86 system architecture, an initial environment is obtained; the Linux printer device located at the usb port is identified and captured based on the virtual machine, the first printer driver is redirected through usb redirection technology, the CUPS service port of the initial environment is mapped by using ip port redirection technology, and the second printer driver is installed on the CUPS service port in the target environment; the content to be printed is obtained, and the printing instruction is executed on the content to be printed based on the target printer driver. The printing tasks can be allocated according to the server CPU, memory, and bandwidth loads, reducing the single point of failure rate.

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

The present invention relates to the field of printing connection technology, and in particular to a method, device, equipment and medium for preheating printing of automobile diagnostic equipment. The present invention provides a method for preheating printing of automobile diagnostic equipment, which establishes a communication connection with a newly added printer, reads the device identification of the newly added printer and matches it with the local printer identification. If the match is successful, the corresponding internal printer module is directly dispatched to drive the newly added printer; otherwise, the corresponding backup printer driver is installed for the newly added printer module and loaded into the printer module. The newly added printer is controlled by the printer module to process the printing data. After the printer module loads the printer, it automatically powers on or off the printer according to the set rules. It can effectively reduce the power consumption of automobile diagnostic equipment. At the same time, when the diagnostic equipment is about to print, the printer is connected in advance to preheat the printer, thereby improving the user experience.

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

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a virtual printer program, the virtual printer program causing a computer to execute first communication processing, second communication processing, and printing processing. The first communication processing is processing of pretending a printer for a general-purpose printer driver and communicating with the general-purpose printer driver. In the second communication processing, communication is performed with a print server. In the printing processing, a print job acquired from the general-purpose printer driver in the first communication processing is transmitted to the print server: in the second communication processing to cause a printer connected to the print server via a network to perform printing.

The invention relates to the technical field of printers, and particularly provides a data processing method and device, computing equipment and a storage medium. The data processing method comprises the steps that a printer driving program receives to-be-printed data; identifying a data source of the to-be-printed data; if the data source of the to-be-printed data comprises text printing software, a printing setting command generated by the text printing software is obtained, and the printing setting command is used for setting specific printing parameters of the to-be-printed data; the printing software is used for replacing at least one part of functions of the printer driving program; and modifying the to-be-printed data according to the printing setting command so as to enable the modified to-be-printed data to conform to predefined printing specifications of the printer. According to the embodiment of the invention, the printing success probability and possibility of the printer are improved.

There is provided a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a printing control program, the printing control program causing a computer to execute display processing, acquisition processing, and instruction processing. In the display processing, a setting image is displayed in response to a request from a general-purpose printer driver. In the acquisition processing, a FAX transmission destination to be a destination of FAX is acquired via the setting image. In the instruction processing, print control data including the FAX transmission destination is passed to the general-purpose printer driver and the general-purpose printer driver is caused to execute a print instruction conforming to the print control data and serving as a FAX transmission instruction to a printer having a FAX transmission function.

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