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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1998
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A print processing apparatus using a computer system, the computer system having: a computer; a printer connected with the computer; and a printer driver specific to the printer, for sending printing data from an application having a printing function to the printer directly or via an operating system, which print processing apparatus comprises: a display for displaying print setting items of the application and print setting items of the printer driver simultaneously on particular screens when printing operation is carried out using the application; and a print support software for extracting an overlapping item between the print setting items of the application and the print setting items of the printer driver so as to prevent contents of the overlapping item from conflicting with each other.