Patent ID: 8130403

Claim:
A printer connected to a host device, comprising: a communication interface to communicate data with the host device, wherein the communication interface includes functionality to: receive a request command from the host device; send information corresponding to a number of the printer's usable print object identifiers to the host device in response to the request command; receive, from the host device, a first printer setting information and print object identifiers corresponding to the number of printer's usable print object identifiers, wherein each of the print object identifiers is associated with one of a plurality of print objects; send, to the host device, a data request for each of the plurality of print objects using the print object identifiers; and receive, from the host device, the print object data for each of the plurality of print objects, wherein the plurality of print objects are a plurality of objects to be printed, wherein the print object identifiers are identifiers that identify an object to be printed.