Patent Document ID: 8792116
Application ID: 11913707

Base Claim:
1. A method of operating a printer driver, comprising the steps of: displaying a GUI of the printer driver using the default language-dependent file which has been expanded; displaying a printer dialog box, the printer dialog box being displayed each time a user selects a print menu item and displaying information which allows a user to select an alternative language; selecting, by the user using the printer dialog box, the alternative language used with the GUI of the printer driver, the alternative language used for displaying information using the GUI regarding the printer which outputs characters or images on media; expanding an alternative language-dependent file which corresponds to the alternative language which has been selected; and displaying the GUI of the printer driver using the alternative language-dependent file has been expanded and which corresponds to the alternative language file which has been selected.

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Claim 4:
4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the displaying of the printer dialog box is performed each time the user selects the print menu item which is of a file menu.