Patent ID: 8345286
Filing Date: 2013-01-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing system comprising: an information processing apparatus having a general printer driver operating in a course of preparing general print data having a basic instruction; an image forming apparatus performing print operation based on print data including the general print data prepared by the information processing apparatus; and a printer driver storage device storing a specific printer driver operating in a course of preparing specific print data having an instruction specialized for the image forming apparatus, wherein the information processing apparatus further comprises: wherein the information processing apparatus supports the general printer driver and the specific printer driver, and the general printer driver and the specific printer driver can exist independently of one another and (i) are activated from a print instruction from application software, (ii) are adapted to obtain application data from the application software, and (iii) are adapted to convert the application data into print data readable by the image forming apparatus.