Method and apparatus for dynamically adapting a printing appliance to a printer

摘要

Methods of determining a script to facilitate servicing a print request from a source device (e.g., a wireless mobile device) on a printer by a printing appliance are described. A printing appliance maintains a list of textual scripts that are mapped to a plurality of printers by a mapping relationship. For a given printer and requesting source device, if an appropriate script cannot be determined, the printing appliance will contact a server to resolve if a script on the printing appliance is an appropriate script, or whether the server should obtain and provide an appropriate script. A mapping relationship on the printing appliance is updated when an appropriate script is identified or provided by the server.

主权项

1. A method implemented by a printing appliance, the method comprising:
receiving, by the printing appliance, a command from a source device, wherein the command from the source device is for performing a print job on a printer connected to the printing appliance; determining whether a script used by the printing appliance to perform the print job on the printer is mapped to the printer; in response to determining that the script used by the printing appliance to perform the print job is not mapped to the printer:
accessing a server to (i) obtain, from the server, the script used by the printing appliance to perform the print job on the printer or (ii) identify the script stored on the printing appliance used by the printing appliance to perform the print job on the printer; andupdating a mapping relationship, wherein the mapping relationship maps the script to the printer.