Patent ID: 9444963
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a printer driver to be used by application software for generating a print script to be printed by an image forming apparatus from an original in accordance with ability of the image forming apparatus, the printer driver causing the computer to function as an ability reply device, wherein the ability device replies the ability to the application software in response to an inquiry asking the ability from the application software, and wherein the ability reply device obtains a resolution to reply as a print resolution included in the ability to reply to the application software, by obtaining a scale factor of the resolution to reply to an actual print resolution of the image forming apparatus on the basis of a size of a printable region in a size of a recording medium to be printed by the image forming apparatus and a size of a printable region in a size of the original, and by multiplying the obtained scale factor by the actual print resolution of the image forming apparatus, wherein, the ability reply device determines a horizontal scale factor Rw and a vertical scale factor Rh from the following equation: when non-printable regions in upper, lower, right, and left sides of the recording medium have the same width, and when supposed that sizes in horizontal and vertical directions of the size of the original are W1 and H1, respectively, sizes in horizontal and vertical directions of the size of the recording medium are W2 and H2, respectively, and a width of the non-printable region of the recording medium is d, and wherein the ability reply device obtains a smaller one of the determined Rw and Rh as the scale factor of the resolution to reply.