Patent ID: 9740442
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method of operating a system including a computing device and a printing device, the method comprising: providing the computing device with an emulator and a first printing-related software application; providing the printing device with a second printing-related software application, the second printing-related software application being substantially the same as the first printing-related software application; executing, by the computing device, the first printing-related software application to display a first printing-related operation comprising a print view or a print preview, the first printing-related operation performed by the emulator in response to a first input to the emulator; executing, by the printing device, the second printing-related software application to perform a second printing-related operation comprising printing an image in response to a second input to the printing device; and wherein, when the first input and the second input are substantially the same, the first printing-related operation and the second printing-related operation are substantially the same such that the print view or print preview and the image are substantially the same.