Patent ID: 9111198
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A print control method that executes a process of adding a command to print data output from an application to a communication port in a computer having a communication port and executing a specific process by an application installed on an application layer and operating under an operating system on the operating system kernel layer, whereby the computer executes steps including: a data acquisition step of acquiring the print data at the OS kernel layer before the print data is received by the communication port; a data interpreting step of determining on the application layer if each command of the print data acquired in the data acquisition step is a first command instructing printing a print object that should be printed at a different print speed than the standard speed; and a data processing step of executing on the application layer a command addition process of adding a command changing the print speed before the first command when the command interpreted in the data interpreting step is determined to be a first command, and not adding a command when the command is not a first command, and then outputting the processed print data to the communication port.