Print controlling apparatus, method, and storage medium to control primary and secondary print drivers

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8941848-B2
Application number	US-201213561562-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 30, 2012
Priority date	Aug 11, 2011
Publication date	Jan 27, 2015
Grant date	Jan 27, 2015

Abstract

A novel print controlling apparatus that facilitates providing easy services that use printer drivers. The print controlling apparatus that executes a print job on a printing apparatus, and includes an additional feature driver 130 that acquires image to be printed and print settings set by a user by working as a printer driver and generates a print data in a format with open specifications by processing the acquired image, an individual driver 150 as a printer driver that generates a print job to be sent to a printer 2 designated in the print settings, and a reprint controlling unit 140 that has the individual driver 150 generate the print job based on the generated print data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A print controlling apparatus, comprising:
a processor including:
a first print information generating unit to acquire image data regarding an image to be printed and print settings to generate first print information in a format with open specifications;
a second print information generating unit to generate second print information to be sent to a printing apparatus designated in the print settings; and
a reprint controlling unit to receive the gener…

Assignees

• Yamada Satoru
• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yamada Satoru

Classifications

• G06F3/1225

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1228

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1285

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1205 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1245

  Physics · mapped topic