US 11,836,555 B2
Information processing device outputting preceding operation command to printer before starting transmitting print execution data
Yoshito Hosomizo, Nagoya (JP); Mareyuki Murata, Ogaki (JP); and Kenju Narita, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on May 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/320,467.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-086100 (JP), filed on May 15, 2020; and application No. 2020-086101 (JP), filed on May 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0357712 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. G06K 15/02 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/3215 (2019.01)
CPC G06K 15/1805 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1204 (2013.01); G06F 3/1222 (2013.01); G06F 3/1232 (2013.01); G06F 3/1238 (2013.01); H04N 1/0044 (2013.01); G06F 1/3215 (2013.01); G06K 15/1803 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a support program installed on and executed by a computer in an information processing device, the support program supporting a printer connected to the information processing device, the information processing device being a device different from the printer, the information processing device including a communication interface and an operating system installed therein, a printing program being built in the operating system,
wherein the support program is an application supporting a model of the printer,
wherein the support program, when executed by the computer, causes the information processing device to perform:
in a case that a print instruction to execute printing on the printer by using the built-in printing program is issued, at least one of a command outputting process and an outputting instruction process,
wherein the command outputting process is to output a preceding operation command to the printer via the communication interface before starting transmitting print execution data to the printer, the print execution data being based on print data which the operating system generates according to the built-in printing program, the preceding operation command being for commanding the printer to execute a preceding printer function operation prior to starting printing, the printer having a function to execute the preceding operation corresponding to the preceding operation command,
wherein the outputting instruction process is to instruct a command transmission program to output the preceding operation command while the outputting instruction process designates the printer as an outputting destination, the command transmission program having a function to output the preceding command to the printer which is designated as the outputting destination, wherein the command transmission program is an application supporting the model of the printer, wherein the command transmission program is installed on the information processing device; and
wherein the preceding printer function operation includes at least one of:
an operation removing a cap from a print head, the print head and the cap being provided in the printer, the cap being used to prevent ink from drying;
an operation moving the print head to a print start position;
an operation preheating a fixing unit provided in the printer; and
an operation conveying a sheet of paper from a paper tray, which is provided in the printer, to a prescribed cuing position.