Patent ID: 9658806
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method comprising: determining, via a print client, that a driver for a target printer is not installed on the print client; transmitting, via a client-side printing application, a request communication to the target printer to execute a print request, wherein the request communication includes characteristics of the print client and the print document to aid the target printer in completing the print request, and the characteristics of the print document include a native format; transmitting, via the client-side printing application, a print document communication including a print document in a native format to the target printer; and conducting, via the target printer, a conversion of the print document from the native format to a target printer format, wherein the target printer includes one or more storage devices, and the one or more storages devices stores one or more document acquisition drivers, one or more printer-side printing applications, and one or more native format drivers.