Peripheral device control system, its control method, and information processing apparatus, and computer program and computer-readable storage medium

摘要

This invention has as its object to control a peripheral device by selecting optimal processing even when the version of the OS of an information processing apparatus is updated and when the version of firmware of the peripheral device is updated. To this end, according to this invention, the version information of the OS of an information processing apparatus, that of firmware of a printer, and that of a printer driver are acquired. A control method that acquires status information of the printer is set according to the acquired information.