Patent ID: 7365872

Claim:
A method for remotely printing a document on a network comprising a networked client computer, a target networked printer device and a print server computer, the method comprising: storing administrative settings for the target networked printer device applied by the print server computer on the client computer, the administrative settings including at least information sufficient to permit the client computer to render the document in a native printer language of the target networked printer device; updating, using a synchronization manager on the client computer, the stored administrative settings to maintain synchronization with current print server computer administrative settings, the synchronization manager being configured to perform the updating at a periodic time interval; applying the stored administrative settings to the document on the client computer; based on the administrative settings, rendering the document in the native printer language of the target networked printer device on the client computer; and sending the rendered document to the print server computer to print without additional conversion of the rendered document by the print server.