Patent ID: 8456666
Filing Date: 2013-06-04
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of controlling printing of a document on a printer using a printer driver interface being displayed on a computing device, comprising: receiving a print command to print the document having a document size, the document size being a size of the document set by an application in which the document was created and from which a user is printing; displaying the printer driver interface, the printer driver interface including the document size automatically selected by the print driver interface, and not being selectable by the user via the printer driver interface; displaying a selectable paper output size on the printer driver interface, the selectable paper output size allowing the user to select a user-selected one of a plurality of different paper output sizes separate and apart from the document size; displaying user-selectable scaling options on the print driver interface, the user-selectable scaling options applying scaling to an image to be printed on the user-selected one of the plurality of different paper output sizes, the user-selectable scaling options including automatic scaling; displaying on the printer driver interface a scaling percentage based on a comparison of the document size and the user-selected paper output size when any of the user-selectable scaling options, including the automatic scaling option, is selected; receiving from the user the user-selected one of the paper output sizes; controlling printing of the document using the user-selected one of the paper output sizes; and displaying a drop-down menu that allows selections that include at least saving the selected document settings a default setting using a name of the document, the document size, the selectable paper output size, and the user-selectable scaling options being simultaneously displayed to the user in a single display on the print driver interface.