Patent ID: 11886945
Assignee: BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a support program readable by a computer of an information processing device, the support program corresponding to a printer connected to the information processing device and supporting a general-purpose print program pre-installed in an operating system of the information processing device, the support program, when executed by the computer, causes the computer to perform:
based on a print instruction being output from an application program installed in the information processing device and transferred to the general-purpose print program to cause the printer to perform printing,
receiving intermediate image data according to the print instruction from the operating system;
generating rasterized raster data based on the intermediate image data received from the operating system;
compressing the generated raster data; and
transmitting print data based on the compressed raster data to the printer,

wherein the support program, when executed by the computer, further causes the computer to perform:
obtaining capability information from the printer, the capability information indicating a capability of the printer and including information indicating whether the printer has a decompression function for decompressing the print data that has undergone the compressing, and

wherein the support program causes the computer to:
in a case the obtained capability information indicates that the decompression function is possessed, perform the compressing; and
in a case the obtained capability information does not indicate that the decompression function is possessed, perform causing the printer to perform the printing according to the intermediate image data obtained from the operating system without performing the compressing.