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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2003
Brett Williams, Roseville, CA (US);
John Reilly, Roseville, CA (US);
Brett Williams, Roseville, CA (US);
John Reilly, Roseville, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment of the invention, a method for printer driver initialization for a non-Microsoft Windows system, includes: copying a selected printer driver from a remote system to a local system, and installing the printer driver on the local system; initializing the printer driver on the local system and generating initialization information for the initialized printer driver; cloning the initialization information, and storing the cloned initialization information on the remote system; and binding the cloned initialization information to the selected printer driver. The remote system may be a non-Microsoft Windows system. The local system may be a Microsoft Windows system.