Patent ID: 7990568

Claim:
A print driver stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium executable in a host computer, the print driver comprising: a printer driver user interface including a printing option setting unit having a dialog interface box to display user selectable printing options and to select one or more of the displayed printing options based on a user input, and an image preview unit to display a preview image, wherein, if one of the user selectable printing options is selected via the printing option setting unit, the image preview unit displays a preview image corresponding to the selected printing option, wherein, when an operation of an input device over the preview image displayed in the image preview unit is received, the preview image displayed in the image preview unit is changeable without receiving a user input via the printing option setting unit, wherein the user selectable printing options displayed in the printing option setting unit include an N-up printing option which is changeable via manipulation of an N-up printing option pull-down menu, wherein an N-up printing option icon is displayed adjacent to the preview image to indicate that the N-up printing option is changeable via an operation of the input device over the preview image displayed in the image preview unit, wherein, when the operation of the input device over the preview image displayed in the image preview unit to change the N-up printing option is received, the preview image displayed in the image preview unit is changed to represent the changed N-up printing option, and wherein, when the operation of the input device over the preview image displayed in the image preview unit is received to change the N-up printing option, the changed N-up printing option is reflected in the N-up printing option pull-down menu displayed in the printing option setting unit.