Patent ID: 7372590
Filing Date: 2008-05-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing method by a group printer driver capable of controlling a plurality of member printers, the method comprising: a receiving step of receiving a request for a capability notification of the group printer driver from an application; a determining step of determining, as a capability notification method, whether or not a conflict result of capabilities of the plurality of member printers is to be informed; an information collecting step of collecting information from each of the plurality of member printers when it is determined in the determining step that the conflict result of the capabilities of the plurality of member printers is to be informed; a conflict processing step of performing conflict processing on the information collected in the information collecting step, when it is determined in the determining step that the conflict result of the capabilities of the plurality of member printers is to be informed; a first notifying step of notifying to the application the conflict result obtained by the conflict processing performed in the conflict processing step, when it is determined in the determining step that the conflict result of the capabilities of the plurality of member printers is to be informed; and a second notifying step of notifying to the application a capability defined in the group printer driver when it is determined in the determining step that the conflict result of the capabilities of the plurality of member printers is not to be informed.