Patent ID: 8773674

Claim:
A method for supporting multiple print devices interfaced with a previously installed print driver, the method comprising: providing a previously installed universal print driver with access to a repository of Device Compatibility Packs (“DCP”), each DCP being associated with one printer device and containing print device specific data; in response to discovering a printer device being selected for producing a print job and being interfaced to the print driver after the print driver was deployed in a customer environment, determining if the print driver already has a DCP installed for supporting the print device; in response to determining the select printer device is not supported by the print driver, searching the repository by the print driver for a DCP of the select printer device and installing the DCP onto the print driver for supporting the select printer device and recognizing the select printer device as being supported by the print driver; in response to recognizing the select printer device as the supported device, accessing the DCP by the print driver and using the information included in the DCP for presenting capability information of the select print device to a user; and, in response to not finding the DCP in the repository, presenting basic features of a print device to the user.