Patent ID: 7640554

Claim:
A method for installing a printer driver stored on a recording medium on a computer terminal, comprising: a step of automatically referring to regional information identifying a particular region before the printer driver is installed on the computer terminal, the regional information being set in said computer terminal in advance; a selection step of automatically selecting a piece of setup information from multiple pieces of setup information stored on said recording medium on the basis of the referred to regional information, the multiple pieces of setup information corresponding to multiple different regions, respectively, wherein the selected piece of setup information affects assortment of selectable items to be displayed on a screen initiated by the printer driver when a printing is executed by a user; and a step of installing a control program contained in the printer driver and the selected piece of setup information on the computer terminal, wherein the control program is common to the different regions, whereby the printer driver is installed on the computer terminal, wherein said selection step comprising steps of: referring to a table that correlates the regional information with addresses where each piece of setup information is stored; and selecting a piece of setup information from multiple pieces of information by specifying an address corresponding to the regional information.