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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2005
Sung-myun Lee, Anyang-si, KR;
Jae-kyoo Kang, Yongin-si, KR;
Sung-myun Lee, Anyang-si, KR;
Jae-kyoo Kang, Yongin-si, KR;
SAMSUNG Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
An apparatus and method of changing a printer driver, and a printing system and method using the same. The apparatus includes a buffer to store a print command, a driver storing unit to store a plurality of printer drivers corresponding to a designated printer, a driver selecting unit to select a printer driver corresponding to printer identification information from the driver storing unit when the printer identification information is input, and a command processing unit generate data that is used for printing by processing the print command stored in the buffer using the selected printer driver and generating an error signal if an error occurs during processing the print command. The printing system includes a host to select the printer driver corresponding to the designated printer from the plurality of printer drivers for the designated printer and to generate the data for printing if identification information of the printer or a request for a change of the selected printer driver is received, the printer selecting a printer emulator corresponding to the printer driver selected by the host from a plurality of printer emulators, and processing and printing the data generated by the host.