When a plugin call button is pressed via a print menu of an application linked to a business chat service, information of a print plugin is acquired, the print plugin is selected based on the information, and when a print operation is accepted, printing of a file displayed by the application is instructed to the selected print plugin. The print plugin transmits a print job to a print service in response to the print instruction.

Systems and methods relate generally to contextual features for a printing device. In an example method thereof, features of a printing device configuration are queried by a firmware service. The features obtained by a first dynamic scheduling service associated with the printing device are packaged. The features packaged are retrieved to provide a features list thereof by a second dynamic scheduling service for a driver associated with the printing device. Dynamic scheduling data is generated by an artificial intelligence service including deactivating one or more of the features responsive to a policy. The generating of the dynamic scheduling data includes filtering the features using the policy by the artificial intelligence service. A dynamic user interface is created by the second dynamic scheduling service responsive to the dynamic scheduling data.

A control method for an information processing apparatus which comprises a memory that stores a graphical user interface (GUI) application capable of providing a GUI in a case where a driver that does not have a function of providing a GUI is selected, the control method includes causing the GUI application to acquire drawing data generated by a drawing application, acquiring, by the GUI application, at least either of data including information indicating a setting and data including information indicating a capability of the driver, and providing, the GUI application, a first display item.

A printing system includes an image forming apparatus and an information processing device. The image forming apparatus stores custom data indicating a setting value of a printing condition that can be achieved by the own apparatus. The information processing device includes a CPU. The CPU causes the information processing device to acquire custom data stored in the image forming apparatus, and a standard printing condition for a printer driver is set according to the custom data.

A control method for controlling an information processing apparatus configured to generate print data using a first program that is interpreted and executed when operating in the information processing apparatus and a second program that is compiled in advance and is usable from the first program, includes acquiring a first generation logic for generating print data, the first generation logic being modifiable and linked with a printer configured to execute printing; generating a second generation logic by modifying the first generation logic at least partially; generating print data to be printed by the printer using input image data and the second generation logic; and transmitting, to the printer, the print data generated in the generating the print data. The first generation logic is executed using the second program.

A method of controlling an information processing apparatus configured to execute an extension application associated with printing data generation software operatable in the information processing apparatus to extend a function includes: adding information on an extended function to printing function information used in the printing data generation software; switching in accordance with a setting value stored in common information shared with the extension application whether to perform skip processing in which conversion processing of intermediate data performed by the printing data generation software is skipped; and editing the intermediate data in which the conversion processing is skipped in the printing data generation software in the switching and converting the edited intermediate data into printing data.

An information processing apparatus includes one or plural first plug-ins that are prepared according to a type of a data output apparatus for outputting data and collect data output from the data output apparatus, one or plural second plug-ins that receive data from the first plug-in and transmit the received data to an external apparatus, and a plug-in management unit that controls activation and stop of the first plug-in and the second plug-in.

An information processing apparatus includes a controller including a processor, the controller configured to receive identification information of an image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus, acquire information regarding a first print setting application based on the received identification information, transmit, to a server apparatus, an acquisition request of identification information of an image forming apparatus registered in the server apparatus, receive, from the server apparatus that has received the acquisition request, identification information of the image forming apparatus to which predetermined information is added, and acquire information regarding a second print setting application based on the received identification information of the image forming apparatus to which the predetermined information is added.

A print expansion application is downloaded by using, as a key, a printer Hardware Identifier (HWID) acquired when a printer driver to be commonly used in an operating system (OS) is installed, and the print expansion application is associated with the printer driver.

An information processing device changes a printer queue generated at the time of USB coupling with a printer to a printer queue corresponding to a predetermined printer driver, when it is detected that the generated printer queue is not a printer queue corresponding to the predetermined printer driver.