MEDIUM WITH RECORDED STATUS INFORMATION ACQUISITION CONTROL PROGRAM, AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR STATUS INFORMATION ACQUISITION CONTROL

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To eliminate the need for a printer driver to acquire status information and control information by communicating with a printer each time the printer driver is actuated at a print request from an application or operating system. SOLUTION: Control for switching the direct acquisition of a method of obtaining the status information of a printer 30 from the printer 30 and the acquisition of status information previously stored in a registry 20a35 is performed according to the actuation state of a printer driver 20a33 and the status information which is already stored in the registry 20a35 is used when the printer driver 20a33 is actuated by an application 20a34 or actuated within a specific time, so that the status information can be acquired and displayed fast.