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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 06, 2000
Hiroaki Momose, Nagano, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
On a setup computer-readable medium, there are recorded a USB port driver file, an INF file including information about a folder in which the USB port driver file is recorded, a printer driver file, and a setup program. After having installed a printer driver on the assumption that a printer is connected to a parallel port (step S ), the setup program copies the INF file to a folder ¥WINDOWS¥INF and a USB port driver file to a folder specified by designation information stored in the INF file (step S ). The setup program performs a connection monitoring operation (step S ) for switching a connection port to which the printer is to be connected when a printer is detected to have been connected to the USB port.