Patent ID: 6967735

Claim:
An imaging system, comprising: an image processor configured to generate image data representing an image; a storage device configured to store the image data; a print driver configured to generate instructions corresponding to the image data; an image maker configured to generate a representation of the image in accordance with the print driver instructions; a first communications network interconnecting the image processor and the print driver; and a second communications network, different than the first communications network, interconnecting the image processor, the print driver, and the storage device, wherein the print driver is further configured to transmit to the image processor, via the first communications network, a product identifier for a destination storage device at which the image data generated by the image processor is to be stored; the image processor is further configured to process the transmitted product identifier to determine if the destination storage device at which the generated image data is to be stored is the storage device; and the image data generated by the image processor is written to the storage device via the second communications network if the destination storage device at which the generated image data is to be stored is determined to be the storage device.