PRINTING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20140016160A1
• Filed: 06/07/2013
• Published: 01/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/10/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: CHIGUSA, Yoshinari
• Granted Patent: US 9,250,849 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1204 resulting in reduced user or operator actions, e.g. presetting, automatic actions, using hardware token storing data
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1225 Software update, e.g. print driver, modules, plug-ins, fonts
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1297 Printer code translation, conversion, emulation, compression; Configuration of printer parameters

Abstract

A printing system includes an identification part configured to identify a printing protocol to be used with respect to an image processor in creating a print queue for displaying a status of the image processor and a reflection part configured to reflect, in the print queue, a definition of a communication setting used for bidirectional communications between an information processor and the image processor, the definition corresponding to the identified printing protocol.

Claims

1. A printing system, comprising:

an identification part configured to identify a printing protocol to be used with respect to an image processor in creating a print queue for displaying a status of the image processor; and

a reflection part configured to reflect, in the print queue, a definition of a communication setting used for bidirectional communications between an information processor and the image processor, the definition corresponding to the identified printing protocol.

2. The printing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the definition of the communication setting is stored in a text file describing a communication setting of an initial value and respective communication settings of printing protocols.

3. The printing system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the reflection part is configured to reflect, in the print queue, a definition of a setting of a function related to image processing, corresponding to the identified printing protocol, simultaneously with the definition of the communication setting.

4. The printing system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the reflection part is configured to determine whether the function related to image processing corresponding to the identified printing protocol is installed in the image processor by performing the bidirectional communications with the image processor, and to determine the definition of the setting of the function as being valid and reflect the definition in the print queue in response to determining that the function is installed in the image processor.

5. The printing system as claimed in claim 4, wherein the reflection part is configured to obtain an alignment value of the function installed in the image processor by performing the bidirectional communications with the image processor, and to reflect the alignment value in the print queue.

6. An information processor, comprising:

an identification part configured to identify a printing protocol to be used with respect to an image processor in creating a print queue for displaying a status of the image processor; and

a reflection part configured to reflect, in the print queue, a definition of a communication setting used for bidirectional communications between the information processor and the image processor, the definition corresponding to the identified printing protocol.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having a program stored thereon, wherein the program instructs a processor of a computer to implement:

an identification part configured to identify a printing protocol to be used with respect to an image processor in creating a print queue for displaying a status of the image processor; and

a reflection part configured to reflect, in the print queue, a definition of a communication setting used for bidirectional communications between the computer and the image processor, the definition corresponding to the identified printing protocol.