Patent ID: 7791753
Filing Date: 2010-09-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A client computer that utilizes a printer driver for a distribution source printer to send a print job to the distribution source printer, wherein the distribution source printer distributes each print job sent with setting of a preset second port number to multiple distribution destination printers, the client computer comprising: a storage unit that stores a first printer driver with property information including specification of a port number, which is specified and used for transmission of each print job and is currently set to a preset first port number, as one printer driver for the distribution source printer; and a printer driver generation module that, in response to an externally given instruction, duplicates the property information of the first printer driver read from the storage unit and changes the port number included in the duplicated property information of the first printer driver to the preset second port number, which is different from the preset first port number, and simultaneously disables inquiry setting information, which is included in the duplicated property information and is enabled and disabled to allow the client computer to make an inquiry and to make no inquiry about an operating status of the distribution source printer, to generate a second printer driver as another printer driver for the distribution source printer.