JP2013130985A - Printer driver installation method, system and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem in which: it is difficult to distribute printer drivers in a plurality of languages for the same model of printers in a point-and-print mechanism.SOLUTION: A printer driver installation method for installing a printer driver in a client by using a print server includes: a process in which the print server manages each printer driver, its corresponding CPU and its corresponding language; a process for transmitting information on a CPU type and a language of the client to the print server; a process in which the print server transmits a driver identifier of the printer driver which is compatible with the received information on the CPU type and the language; a process in which the client requests the printer driver indicated by the received driver identifier from the print server; and a process in which the print server distributes the printer driver indicated by the received driver identifier.

Description

  The present invention relates to a method, system, and program for installing a printer driver in a host computer in a printing system using a print server.

  In recent years, with the networking of offices, one printer is shared by a plurality of client computers. In a printing system constructed by Windows (registered trademark) of Microsoft Corporation, a printer driver installation method called Point & Print (hereinafter referred to as point and print) is generally used. The point-and-print mechanism allows general users to easily use a shared printer without the need to prepare printer driver installation media or to check the printer IP address in advance. In-house systems often strictly manage printer drivers that can be installed on client computers in order to reduce system management costs. Therefore, if the point-and-print mechanism is used, the system administrator can easily manage the printer driver in the client computer.

  However, the point-and-print mechanism still has trouble. One problem is that it is difficult to distribute printer drivers in multiple languages of the same model printer to client computers. For example, in a global company that conducts business in multiple countries, printers in offices in multiple countries are centrally managed by a single print server, and each office PC is connected to a single print server for printing. May do. In that case, the OS of each PC is set in various languages, and it is desired that a printer driver suitable for the language be distributed. In another example, employees from different countries may work in the same office. Also in this case, it is desired that a printer driver suitable for the language is distributed to each PC in which various languages are set. Manufacturers provide printer drivers for various languages, but multiple printer drivers of the same model for one CPU type cannot be installed on the same print server, even if the languages are different. . Therefore, the printer driver that can be distributed from one print server by the point-and-print mechanism is limited to one language per model.

  As a method for automatically installing a printer driver that conforms to the language of the OS of the client PC, the following technique is disclosed (Patent Document 1). In other words, when the installer is downloaded from the server, it automatically starts, checks the OS, language, and printer model of the client PC, obtains the storage location of the driver that matches the connected printer, and downloads the driver from that storage location. to download.

Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2006-351035

  However, since the installer cannot be distributed by point-and-print, the above-described method cannot be implemented by the point-and-print mechanism. The above method is a method for automatically downloading a printer driver for a printer connected to a client PC, and cannot download a printer driver for a shared printer on a print server.

  SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-described problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a method capable of distributing a printer driver suitable for the language of a client PC from a print server by a point-and-print mechanism.

A method of installing a printer driver (313) in a client PC (103) in a printing system using a print server (102),
The print server (102) includes a printer driver management process (S501 to 507) for managing each printer driver (302, 303), its corresponding CPU and its corresponding language,
Client information transmission step of transmitting information on the CPU type (1302) and language setting (1303) of the OS of the client PC (103) to the print server (102) when requesting shared printer information from the client PC (103) (S1102),
The print server (102) transmits the driver identifier (1403) of the printer driver that matches the CPU type (1302) and language setting (1303) information of the OS of the client PC (103) received in the client information transmission step. A driver identifier transmission step (S1211-1219);
The client PC (103) requests a printer driver indicated by the driver identifier (1403) received in the printer driver identifier transmission step from the print server (102), a printer driver distribution request step (S1110),
The print server (102) distributes the printer driver indicated by the driver identifier (1403) received in the printer driver distribution request step (S1222),
A printer driver installation method characterized by comprising:

  Install multiple language printer drivers as alternative printer drivers on the print server, and set the language for each printer driver. When the print server receives information on the CPU and language of the OS from the client PC when starting point-and-print, the print server transmits a driver identifier of a printer driver suitable for the information to the client PC. As a result, the client PC can download a printer driver that matches the CPU and language of the OS, and can improve the user experience. Also, one standard language is set for each corresponding CPU for the printer driver installed on the print server. If there is no printer driver that matches the CPU of the client PC but matches the language, the print server transmits the printer driver identifier of the standard language of the corresponding CPU to the client PC. As a result, the client PC can download a standard language printer driver suitable for the CPU of the OS, and can ensure a minimum user experience.

1 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of a printer driver installation system to which an embodiment of the present invention can be applied. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration for print processing in the host computer of FIG. Block diagram showing the module configuration of FIG. The figure which shows an example of the screen which manages the delivery of the printer driver of the print server Overall flowchart for explaining the processing of the distribution printer driver management screen Flow chart of the driver addition process of FIG. Flowchart of driver deletion processing in FIG. Flowchart of the standard language setting process of FIG. Diagram showing an example of the setup information file specified in the driver addition process The figure which shows an example of the screen which sets the language of an alternative printer driver in driver addition processing Flowchart for explaining processing of client PC in printer driver installation method Flowchart for explaining processing of print server in printer driver installation method The figure which shows an example of the data structure of the information which transmits shared printer information to a print server at the time of a request The figure which shows an example of the data structure of the shared printer information which a print server transmits The figure which shows an example of the setup information file designated by the driver addition process in Example 4 Flowchart of driver addition processing in embodiment 4 FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen for selecting a language of an alternative printer driver in the driver addition process according to the fourth embodiment.

  The best mode for carrying out the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

[Example 1]
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a printer driver installation system to which an embodiment of the present invention can be applied. In this embodiment, a Windows printing system of Microsoft Corporation is taken as an example of an operating system. It should be noted that the present invention can be applied regardless of the configuration of the device as long as the functions of the present invention are executed unless otherwise specified. It may be a single device, a system composed of a plurality of devices, or a system in which processing is performed through a network such as a LAN or WAN.

  The system includes a printer 101, a print server 102, and a client PC 103. The printer 101, the print server 102, and the client PC 103 are communicably connected via a network 104 such as a LAN or a WAN.

  The printer 101 has a function of printing a print job. A single-function printer or a printing unit of a multifunction peripheral device may be used.

  The print server 102 has a function of managing a print job from the client PC 103 and managing the printer 101 connected via the network 104 or a local port (not shown) such as a USB. In addition, the printer driver distributed to the client PC 103 by point-and-print is managed.

  The client PC 103 has a function of issuing a print instruction to the printer 101. When the application issues a print instruction, the print job is sent to the printer 101 via the print server 102.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a device configuration of a host computer such as the print server 102 and the client PC 103 shown in FIG.

  The CPU 201 controls the entire apparatus according to a program stored in the ROM 2021 or RAM 2022 of the main storage device 202 or the auxiliary storage device 205. The RAM 2022 is also used as a work area when the CPU 201 performs various processes. The auxiliary storage device 205 stores an operating system (OS) 2053, a printer driver 2052, application software 2051, and the like. An input device such as a pointing device 2032 typified by a keyboard 2031 and a mouse / touch panel is a device for the user to give various instructions to the computer through the input I / F 203. The output I / F 204 is an interface for outputting data to the outside, and outputs data to an output device such as a monitor 2041 or a printer 2042. The printer 2042 may be connected not only through a local I / O directly connected but also through a network 2061 connected through a communication I / F 206. Reference numeral 207 denotes a common data system bus, which exchanges data between modules.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating a module configuration of the printer driver installation system of FIG.

  The print server 102 includes a print system 301, a system printer driver 302, and an alternative printer driver 303. The print system 301 is a part of the OS, provides the connected printer 101 as a shared printer, receives a print job from the client PC 103, and outputs it to the printer 101. Further, in response to a request from the client PC 103, the system printer driver 302 and the alternative language printer driver 303 associated with the shared printer are distributed.

  The system printer driver 302 is a printer driver corresponding to the OS of the print server 102, and is also a driver used when printing from an application (not shown) on the print server 102. The alternative printer driver 303 is used when another printer driver of the same model as the system printer driver 302 is distributed. For example, when the system printer driver 302 is for a 64-bit OS, when the 32-bit OS is requested from the client PC 103, the alternative printer driver 303 for the 32-bit OS is distributed. If there is no alternative printer driver 303 for 32-bit OS, an error is returned to the client PC 103 because it cannot be used by the client PC 103 even if another CPU printer driver is distributed. Further, when the system printer driver 302 is the English version for the 32-bit OS and the client PC 103 requests the Japanese version for the 32-bit OS, the alternative printer driver 303 for the Japanese version for the 32-bit OS is distributed. If there is no alternative printer driver 303 for the Japanese version for 32-bit OS, the printer driver for another language can be used by the client PC 103 as long as it is the same CPU driver. Therefore, the printer driver for other languages of the system printer driver 302 or the alternative printer driver 303 is distributed to the client PC 103 without causing an error. Details will be described later.

  FIG. 4 is an example of a screen for managing printer drivers that the print server 102 distributes to the client PC 103. When the system printer driver 302 corresponding to the printer 101 is installed, the distributed printer driver management screen 400 can be displayed from the properties of the shared printer. The driver list 401 is a list showing the installation status of the system printer driver 302 and the alternative printer driver 303, and includes a processor column 401a, a language column 401b, and an installed column 401c. The processor column 401a displays the CPU corresponding to the installed printer driver. The language column 401b displays a language supported by the installed printer driver.

  If the standard language of the CPU printer driver indicated by the processor column 401c is displayed, for example, an asterisk “*” is displayed after the language. For example, in the case of FIG. 4, printer drivers for three languages “English (UK)”, “French (France)”, and “Japanese (Japan)” are installed for the x86 CPU. Is the standard language. The standard language is a language of a printer driver that is distributed when a printer driver distribution is requested from the client PC 103 and there is no printer driver of a suitable language, and can be set for each CPU that can be distributed. The standard language can be changed. Details will be described later. The installed column 401c displays whether the printer driver indicated by the processor column 401a and the language column 401b is installed. Since the distributed printer driver management screen 400 cannot be displayed unless the system printer driver 302 is installed, one item corresponding to the CPU of the OS of the print server 102 is always installed. An item in which the installed column 401c is “No” indicates that no CPU printer driver represented by the processor column 401a has been installed, and the language column 401b is blank. For example, in the case of FIG. 4, the Itanium processor driver is not installed. Only one item can be selected in the driver list 401. By pressing an add button 402, a delete button 403, and a standard language setting button 404, an alternative printer driver 303 can be added or deleted, and the standard language can be changed. When a close button 405 is pressed, the distribution printer driver management screen 400 is closed.

  FIG. 5 is an overall flowchart for explaining the processing of the distribution printer driver management screen 400. First, it is determined whether the user has operated the screen (S501), and the process continues to wait in S501 until the operation is performed. When the user performs an operation, the command type by the user operation is determined (S502). If it is an addition command for the alternative printer driver 303, a driver addition process (S503) is performed, and the process returns to S501. If it is a delete command for the alternative printer driver 303, a driver delete process (S504) is performed, and the process returns to S501. If it is a standard language setting command of the alternative printer driver 303, standard language setting processing (S505) is performed, and the process returns to S501. If it is a close command, a screen close process (S506) is performed and the process ends. If it is another command, other processing (S507) corresponding to the command is performed, and the process returns to S501.

  FIG. 6 shows a detailed flowchart of the driver addition process (S503) on the distribution printer driver management screen 400. The user selects an item for the same CPU as the alternative printer driver 303 to be added, and then executes an addition command. The add command is executed when the add button 402 is pressed. Other operation methods such as selecting “Add” from the menu displayed by right-clicking the mouse 2032 may be used. First, it is determined whether there is an item selected in the driver list 401 (S601). If there is no item selected, the process is exited.

  Next, in order to specify the processor and model name of the alternative printer driver 303 to be installed, the processor column 401a of the selected item is acquired (S602), and the model name of the system printer driver 302 is acquired (S603). Then, a screen for specifying the setup information file (inf file) of the installation source medium or folder is displayed. When specified by the user (S604), the description of the specified setup information file is analyzed (S605). The setup information file describes the contents of the printer driver installation set. By analyzing the setup information file, the compatible CPU and model name of the installable printer driver can be found. FIG. 9 is an example of a setup information file. In this example, it can be seen that a printer driver corresponding to a printer having a model name “xxxx” manufactured by Canon for x86 and x64 CPUs can be installed. If the setup information file can be analyzed, it is determined whether a printer driver corresponding to the CPU and model acquired in S602 and S603 is included (S606). If it is determined that it is not included, the process is exited. If it is determined that it is included, a screen for setting the language of the alternative printer driver 303 to be installed is displayed (S607).

  FIG. 10 is an example of a screen for setting the language of the alternative printer driver 303. When the language combo box 1001 is clicked with the mouse 2032, a language list is displayed. When one of the language lists is selected, the list is closed and the selected item is input to the language combo box 1001. When the OK button 1002 is pressed, the language input in the language combo box 1001 is stored in the work area in the RAM 2022 as the language of the alternative printer driver 303 to be installed, and the printer driver language setting screen 1000 is closed. When the printer driver language setting screen 1000 is closed, the alternative printer driver 303 is installed using the designated setup information file (S608). After the installation process, it is determined whether the installation is successful (S609). If the installation is successful, the language stored in the work area in the RAM 2022 is set as the language of the installed alternative printer driver 303 (S610). If the installation fails, such as when the user interrupts the installation, the process is exited. If the language of the alternative printer driver 303 is set in S610, it is determined whether the installed column 401c of the selected item in the driver list 401 is “No” (S611). If “No”, the installed alternative printer driver 303 is the only printer driver for that CPU, so it is set to the standard language of the designated CPU printer driver (S612), and the process is exited.

  FIG. 7 shows a detailed flowchart of the driver deletion process (S504) of the distributed printer driver management screen 400. The user selects an item of the alternative printer driver 303 to be deleted, and then executes a delete command. The delete command is executed when the delete button 403 is pressed. Other operation methods such as selecting “Delete” from the menu displayed by right-clicking the mouse 2032 may be used. First, it is determined whether there is an item selected in the driver list 401 (S701), and if there is no item selected, the process is exited. Next, it is determined whether the selected item is the system printer driver 302 (S702). The system printer driver 302 is deleted in the printer folder on the control panel. Then, it is determined whether “*” (indicating the standard language) is displayed in the language column 401b of the selected item (S703), and further, it is determined whether there is another printer driver for the same CPU as the selected item. (S704). If “*” is displayed in the language column 401b of the selected item and there is another printer driver for the same CPU as the selected item, another printer driver for the same CPU as the selected item Is changed to the standard language (S705). The method for selecting another printer driver for the same CPU as the selected item may be any method such as the next item of the current standard language item on the driver list 401 (first if it is the last). If “*” is not displayed in S703, or if it is determined in S704 that there is no other printer driver for the same CPU, S705 is skipped. Then, the alternative printer driver 303 of the item selected in the driver list 401 is deleted (S706), and the process is exited.

  FIG. 8 shows a detailed flowchart of the standard language setting process (S505) of the distribution printer driver management screen 400. The user selects an item of the system printer driver 302 or the alternative printer driver 303 desired to be a standard language, and then executes a standard language setting command. The standard language setting command is executed when the setting button 404 for the standard language is pressed. Other operation methods such as selecting “set to standard language” from a menu displayed by right-clicking the mouse 2032 may be used. First, it is determined whether there is an item selected in the driver list 401 (S801), and if there is no item selected, the process is exited. Next, it is determined whether or not the installed field 401c of the selected item is “Yes” (S802), and if “No”, the process is exited. Then, it is determined whether “*” (indicating the standard language) is displayed in the language column 401b of the selected item (S803), and if “*” is displayed, the process is terminated. If “*” is not displayed, the CPU printer driver standard language that is the same as the selected item of the driver list 401 is set. For example, in the case of FIG. 4, when the user selects the item “French (France)” and presses the “Set to standard language” button 404, the standard language of the printer driver for the x86 CPU is changed from “English (UK)” to “French ( France) ”.

  The client PC 103 includes an application 311, a print system 312, and a printer driver 313. The application 311 outputs print data to the print system 312 according to a user's print instruction. In the Windows printing system, GDI commands or XPS data are used as print data. The print system 312 is a part of the OS and outputs print data received from the application 311 to the printer driver 313. The printer driver 313 receives print data from the print system 312 and converts it into a control command that can be recognized by the printer 101, for example, a page description language (PDL). The converted printer control command is output as print data from the print system 312 to the printer 101 via the print system 301 of the print server 102.

  FIGS. 11 and 12 are flowcharts of the processing of the client PC 103 and the processing of the print server 102 for explaining the printer driver installation method to which this embodiment can be applied. The client PC 103 and the print server 102 communicate with each other according to a point-and-print mechanism, and the client PC 103 installs the printer driver distributed by the print server 102. Data transmission / reception by communication is indicated by dotted arrows in the figure.

  Hereinafter, the processing of FIGS. 11 and 12 will be described.

  The general user displays the shared printer of the print server 102 on the client PC 103, selects one of the displayed printer objects, and executes a connection command. Then, the print system 312 of the client PC 103 checks the CPU and language setting of the OS (S1101), and requests information about the selected shared printer together with the information from the print server 102 (S1102, A).

  FIG. 13 shows an example of the data structure of shared printer request data 1300 transmitted to the print server 102 when the client PC 103 requests shared printer information. The shared printer request data 1300 includes a printer name 1301, a client CPU 1302, and a client language 1303. A printer name 1301 is a shared name of a shared printer that requests information. The client CPU 1302 represents the CPU type of the client OS. A client language 1303 represents the language setting of the client OS.

  FIG. 14 shows an example of the data structure of shared printer information 1400 returned from the print server 102 in response to shared printer request data. The shared printer information 1400 includes a server name 1401, a printer name 1402, a driver identifier 1403, and port information 1404. The server name 1401 is a name that uniquely represents the print server 102 on the network 104. A printer name 1402 is a shared name of the shared printer. The driver identifier 1403 is an identifier that can uniquely identify a printer driver associated with the shared printer. The port information 1404 is a port setting of the printer object on the print server 102.

  When the print system 301 of the print server 102 receives the request for shared printer information (A), it determines whether it is a service end instruction (S1201). If it is an end instruction, the service program is shut down. If it is not an instruction to end, it is determined that the communication is from the client PC 103 (S1202). If it is not communication from the client PC 103, the process returns to S1201, and continues to wait until there is communication from the client PC 103. If the communication is from the client PC 103, the type of communication is determined (S1203). If the request is for shared printer information 1400 from the client, the received shared printer request data 1300 is acquired (S1211). Then, it is searched whether there is a printer driver for the client CPU 1302 corresponding to the printer name 1301 (S1212), and the search result is determined (S1213). If it is determined that there is no corresponding printer driver, an error indicating that there is no corresponding driver is transmitted to the client PC 103 (S1214, B). This is because even if a printer driver that does not support the client CPU 1302 is distributed, the client PC 103 cannot use it. If it is determined that there is a corresponding printer driver, the search result of S1212 is further searched for a printer driver corresponding to the client language 1303 (S1215), and the search result is determined (S1216). If it is determined that there is a corresponding printer driver, the driver identifier of the found language compatible printer driver is acquired (S1217). If it is determined that there is no corresponding printer driver, the identifier of the printer driver of the standard language for the same CPU is acquired (S1218). Unlike the CPU, even a language printer driver that does not support the client language 1303 can be used by the client, so it does not cause an error. The printer driver identifier acquired in S1217 or S1218 is set in the driver identifier 1403, and the shared printer information 1400 in which other information is also set is transmitted to the client PC 103 (S1219, B), and the process returns to S1201.

  Then, the print system 312 of the client PC 103 acquires the shared printer information 1400 (S1103, B). The print system 312 searches for a printer object corresponding to the shared printer of the printer 101 based on the acquired shared printer information 1400 (S1104). If it is determined that the printer object has already been created, the process ends. If it is determined that it has not been created, it is searched whether the printer driver 313 indicated by the driver identifier 1403 has been installed (S1106), and the search result is determined (S1107). If it is determined that it has been installed, the process proceeds to S1114. If it is determined that it has not been installed, it is determined in S1103 whether an error indicating that there is no corresponding driver has been received (S1108). If it is determined that an error has been received, an error indicating that there is no printer driver corresponding to the client PC 103 is displayed on the print server 102 (S1109), and the process ends. If it is determined that no error has been received, the print system 312 requests the print server 102 for the printer driver indicated by the driver identifier 1403 of the shared printer information 1400 acquired in S1103 (S1110, C).

  If the print system 301 of the print server 102 receives the communication from the client PC 103 (C), it determines the type of communication (S1203). If it is determined that the request is a printer driver distribution request, it is determined whether there is a printer driver indicated by the designated driver identifier 1403 (S1221). If it is determined that there is a printer driver, the printer driver is distributed to the client PC 103 (S1222, D), and the process returns to S1201. If it is determined that there is no printer driver, an error indicating that there is no corresponding driver is transmitted to the client PC 103 (S1223, D), and the process returns to S1201.

  Upon receiving a reply to the distribution request from the print server 102 (D), the print system 312 of the client PC 103 downloads the printer driver 313 (S1111). It is determined whether the download is successful (S1112). If it is determined that it has failed, an error indicating that there is no printer driver corresponding to the client PC 103 is displayed on the print server 102 (S1109), and the process is terminated. If it is determined that the download is successful, the downloaded printer driver 313 is installed (S1113). Further, the print system 312 creates a printer object corresponding to the shared printer of the selected print server 102 on the control panel (S1114), and ends the process.

  Through the above steps, it is possible to automatically distribute the printer driver 313 conforming to the OS language setting of the client PC 103 from the print server 102 by point-and-print. If the printer driver 313 conforming to the language setting is not present in the print server 102, it is possible to deliver the printer driver 313 set to the standard language.

[Example 2]
In the first embodiment, when the alternative printer driver 313 is installed on the print server 102, the printer driver language setting screen 1000 is displayed and the user performs language setting. However, it is necessary to know in advance the language supported by the alternative printer driver 313 to be installed, and there is a possibility that a language different from the actual language may be set by mistake.

  In the second embodiment, a language corresponding to each printer driver can be described in a setup information file (inf file). In addition, a plurality of language printer drivers can be described in one setup information file. Then, in S604 of the driver addition process (S503) on the distributed printer driver management screen 400, a list of languages that can be installed is displayed from the designated setup information file, and the user selects from the list. FIG. 15 shows an example of a setup information file in which a description of a corresponding language and a description of a plurality of language printer drivers can be described. In the “[CANON.NTx86]” section of this setup information file, the language is described by “language-descriptor” of the second parameter of “device-description”. The description of the language is a format based on RFC4646 which combines a two-digit lowercase language code of ISO639 and a two-digit uppercase country or region code of ISO3166. For example, “ja-JP” represents Japanese (Japan), “en-GB” represents English (United Kingdom), and “en-US” represents English (United States). In the case of the setup information file shown in FIG. 15, printer drivers in three languages, Japanese (Japan), English (UK), and English (US), can be installed for the same model.

  FIG. 16 shows a detailed flow of driver addition processing (S503) on the distributed printer driver management screen 400 in the second embodiment. The same numbers as those in FIG. Details will be described below.

  If it is determined in S606 that the printer driver corresponding to the CPU and model to be installed is included, it is determined whether a corresponding language is described in the setup information file designated in S604 (S1601). If no corresponding language is described, the process proceeds to S607. If a supported language is described, a list of supported languages described in the setup information file is displayed (S1602). The user selects a printer driver corresponding to which language to install on this screen. FIG. 17 is an example of a screen for selecting a corresponding language in the case of the setup information file of FIG. The user selects one from the language list 1701 and presses an OK button 1702. Then, the language selected in the language list 1701 is stored in the work area in the RAM 2022 as the language of the alternative printer driver 303 to be installed, and the printer driver language selection screen 1700 is closed. Next, the alternative printer driver 303 conforming to the language stored in the work area in the RAM 2022 is installed using the designated setup information file (S1603), and the process proceeds to S609.

  Through the above steps, it is possible to appropriately set the supported language of the printer driver selected by the user from the list of installable language compatible printer drivers. This eliminates the possibility that the user will set a language different from the language supported by the actual printer driver. Furthermore, the setup information file can be integrated into a plurality of supported languages, eliminating the need for the user to prepare an installation set for each language.

101 Printer 102 Print Server 103 Client PC

Claims (12)

A method of installing a printer driver (313) in a client PC (103) in a printing system using a print server (102),
The print server (102) includes a printer driver management process (S501 to 507) for managing each printer driver (302, 303), its corresponding CPU and its corresponding language,
Client information transmission step of transmitting information on the CPU type (1302) and language setting (1303) of the OS of the client PC (103) to the print server (102) when requesting shared printer information from the client PC (103) (S1102),
The print server (102) transmits the driver identifier (1403) of the printer driver that matches the CPU type (1302) and language setting (1303) information of the OS of the client PC (103) received in the client information transmission step. A driver identifier transmission step (S1211-1219);
The client PC (103) requests a printer driver indicated by the driver identifier (1403) received in the printer driver identifier transmission step from the print server (102), a printer driver distribution request step (S1110),
The print server (102) distributes the printer driver indicated by the driver identifier (1403) received in the printer driver distribution request step (S1222),
A printer driver installation method characterized by comprising: The delivery printer driver management process (S501 to 507)
Printer driver language manual setting step in which the user arbitrarily sets the language of the printer driver to be installed (S607)
The printer driver installation method according to claim 1, further comprising: The delivery printer driver management process (S501 to 507)
Printer driver language automatic setting step for setting the language of the printer driver to be installed in accordance with the language description described in the setup information file (S1602)
The printer driver installation method according to claim 1, further comprising: The delivery printer driver management process (S501 to 507)
Standard language setting step for setting one standard language among a plurality of language-compatible printer drivers for the same CPU (S804)
The printer driver installation method according to claim 2, wherein the printer driver installation method is provided. The printer driver identifier transmission step (S1211-1219)
If there is no printer driver that matches the CPU type (1302) and language setting (1303) information of the client PC (103) received in the client information transmission step, the CPU type (OS) of the client PC (103) 1302) A standard language printer driver identifier transmission step (S1218) for transmitting the driver identifier of the printer driver set in the standard language by the distributed printer driver management step conforming to 1302)
The printer driver installation method according to claim 1, further comprising: A system for installing a printer driver (313) in a client PC (103) in a printing system using a print server (102),
The print server (102) includes a printer driver management unit (S501 to 507) for managing each printer driver (302, 303), its corresponding CPU and its corresponding language,
Client information transmission means for transmitting information on the CPU type (1302) and language setting (1303) of the OS of the client PC (103) to the print server (102) when requesting shared printer information from the client PC (103) (S1102),
The print server (102) transmits the driver identifier (1403) of the printer driver that matches the CPU type (1302) and language setting (1303) information of the OS of the client PC (103) received by the client information transmitting means. Driver identifier transmission means (S1211-1219);
The client PC (103) has a printer driver distribution request unit (S1110) that requests the print server (102) for the printer driver indicated by the driver identifier (1403) received by the printer driver identifier transmission unit;
A print server (102) for delivering a printer driver indicated by the driver identifier (1403) received by the printer driver delivery requesting means (S1222);
A printer driver installation system comprising: The distribution printer driver management means (S501 to 507)
Printer driver language manual setting means in which the user arbitrarily sets the language of the printer driver to be installed (S607)
The printer driver installation system according to claim 6, further comprising: The distribution printer driver management means (S501 to 507)
Printer driver language automatic setting means for setting the language of the printer driver to be installed in accordance with the language description described in the installation information file (S1602)
The printer driver installation system according to claim 6, further comprising: The distribution printer driver management means (S501 to 507)
Standard language setting means for setting one standard language among a plurality of language compatible printer drivers for the same CPU (S804)
The printer driver installation system according to claim 7 or 8, characterized by comprising: The printer driver identifier transmission means (S1211-1219)
When there is no printer driver that matches the CPU type (1302) and language setting (1303) information of the client PC (103) received by the client information transmission means, the CPU type (OS) of the client PC (103) 1302) Standard language printer driver identifier transmitting means for transmitting the driver identifier of the printer driver set in the standard language by the distributed printer driver management means conforming to 1302) (S1218)
The printer driver installation system according to claim 6, further comprising:   A program for causing a computer to execute the printer driver installation method according to any one of claims 1 to 5. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for causing a computer to execute the printer driver installation method according to any one of claims 1 to 5.