INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

摘要

A printer name and a basic capability are obtained from a printer which was searched for when installing a printer driver, and a device type of the printer is decided from the obtained printer name and basic capability and a matching table. Setting information of the decided device type is reflected to configuration settings, and a print setting screen based on the configuration settings is provided.

主权项

1. An information processing apparatus having an installing unit configured to install a device driver for generating control commands to a plurality of kinds of image forming apparatuses having different functions, wherein:
the installing unit has a deciding unit configured to decide a kind of the image forming apparatus connected so that it can communicate, a selecting unit configured to select device configuration type information corresponding to the decided kind of the image forming apparatus, and a setting unit configured to set the selected device configuration type information; and the device configuration type information includes information of functions which can be used in the image forming apparatus.