An information processing apparatus including a shared printer driver which is usable in common with respect to a plurality of different printing apparatuses includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire, in response to receiving an instruction to add a printing apparatus which is to be used with the shared printer driver, identification information for identifying a type of the printing apparatus, and a second acquisition unit configured to acquire, with use of the identification information acquired by the first acquisition unit, information indicating a characteristic of a printing apparatus corresponding to the identification information from a server different from the printing apparatus, wherein a user interface (UI) for use in performing print setting is displayed based on the information indicating the characteristic acquired by the second acquisition unit.

A printer having a single-sheet manual feed tray improves user convenience. A printer configured to print based on print request data has a manual paper feeder in which only one sheet of print media can be loaded at one time; another paper feeder in which multiple sheets of print media can be loaded at one time; and a manual feeder priority function that prioritizes using the manual paper feeder over the other paper feeder when automatic paper feeder selection is specified in the print request data.

An information processing apparatus includes a printer driver configured to generate a print command compliant with a predetermined printing protocol based on print data obtained from a data generation application, one or more extension modules configured to generate a print command compliant with another printing protocol different from the predetermined printing protocol, a storage unit configured to store information associating the one or more extension modules to be used for generating the print command compliant with said another printing protocol with the printer driver, and an output unit configured to output the print command compliant with said another printing protocol, the print command being obtained through processing of the print data obtained by the printer driver, and the processing being performed by the one or more modules indicated by the information.

A communication apparatus includes: a first type communication unit configured to perform communication with a portable device in a near field communication mode; a display unit; and a control device configured to perform: a receiving process of receiving a radio wave for connection with the portable device in the near field communication mode, from the portable device through the first type communication unit; and a display process of controlling the display unit to display a notice for prompting a user to perform operation for permitting the portable device to transmit information to the communication apparatus in the near field communication mode, in response to receipt of the radio wave in the receiving process.

An information processing apparatus including a processor, and a memory for storing a printer driver. The processor causes the printer driver to perform accepting, from software different from the printer driver, first drawing data including rasterized object data and information of a print processing type, specifying, in a case where the print processing type included in the first drawing data is a predetermined print processing type, a target area in the rasterized object data, and generating second drawing data based on the accepted drawing data so that the specified target area of the rasterized object data is not drawn. The printer driver also generates PDL data based on the second drawing data, and transmits the PDL data to an image forming apparatus. The software performs raster image generation processing based on object data received from an application different from the software to generate the rasterized object data.

An image forming apparatus includes a storage unit that stores generated image data, a first processing unit that, based on the image data stored in the storage unit and setting information, performs image processing according to a type of sheets stored in a first sheet feed cassette for printing of an Nth copy, a second processing unit that, based on the image data stored in the storage unit and the setting information, performs image processing according to a type of sheets stored in a second sheet feed cassette for printing of an (N+1)th copy, and a printing unit that prints image data processed by the first processing unit on a sheet fed from the first sheet feed cassette, and prints image data processed by the second processing unit on a sheet fed from the second sheet feed cassette.

There is provided an information processing device for executing a program for printing. The information processing device includes a processor and a memory that stores print information used for printing and instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to execute the following steps: converting data to be printed into print data that is printable by an image forming apparatus; and upon detecting that the print information stored in the memory includes execution information of a predetermined process for the print data generated by the converting step, executing the predetermined process based on the execution information.

Example implementations relate to fast page first print optimization. For example, a system according to the present disclosure, may include a host driver coupled to a printing device. The host driver may send a command to the printing device indicating implementation of a fast page first feature, implement a page description language (PDL) on the printing device that defines print parameters for a print job on a first command of each page of the print job. Moreover, in response to the definition of the print parameters, and during or prior to startup of a print engine on the printing device, the host driver may determine if a print optimization of the fast page first feature would reduce a first page out time (FPOT) of the print job.

A print-mode determination processor determines the print mode of a print job that is described in a page description language (PDL) and that has a print mode set to an automatic determination mode, using image data generated for a preflight check by a preflight checker that performs a preflight check of image data of a print job. The image data for a preflight check has a resolution lower than that of thumbnail image data and sufficient to determine whether to set a color print mode or a black-and-white print mode, such as presence or absence of a color part in the image data of the print job or the degree of the color part, so that the time required for generating and analyzing image data for print mode determination can be shortened.

An apparatus that executes a driver program generating an electronic document in a predetermined format based on drawing data in a predetermined type converted by a conversion module, wherein the conversion module converts a drawing command, for an object with a text attribute that satisfies a predetermined condition, of drawing commands making up drawing data of a document into a drawing command with a non-text attribute and delivers text information the type-converted drawing command both relating to the object and to the driver program; and the driver program generates, in the case of receiving the text information and the type-converted drawing command, an electronic document in the predetermined format by representing the object whose attribute has been converted into the non-text attribute of the type-converted drawing command by an object with a text attribute based on the received text information.