Patent ID: 7434232

Claim:
A system having a processor, comprising: a drive operable, responsive to non-standard print commands, to print pixels of image data on a disc removably inserted in the drive; a driver configured to communicate the non-standard print commands with the drive only if the non-standard print commands are received at the driver from a sender having administrator privileges; a computer application that lacks administrator privileges configured to send high level language commands; a driver programming interface configured to transmit the non-standard print commands via high level language and/or application programming interface function calls in response to the high level language commands received from the computer application; a service proxy that receives the non-standard print commands from the driver programming interface; a service having administrator privileges that receives the non-standard print commands from the service proxy and sends the print commands to the driver, wherein the driver is either in communication with a small-computer-system-interface-pass-through-interface (“SPTI”) or is configured in SPTI mode, and wherein the SPTI or the SPTI configured driver sends the non-standard print commands to the drive to print the disc based on the administrator privileges of the service.