PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT CONTROL SYSTEM, PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT, EXTERNAL DEVICE, PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT CONTROL METHOD, PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT CONTROL SOFTWARE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a peripheral equipment control system capable of controlling a target peripheral equipment even if peripheral equipment control software does not have information about the user management mode of the target peripheral equipment.;SOLUTION: Attribute information 301 of the peripheral equipment 1 is acquired (S1701). The attribute information is acquired by transmitting an attribute acquiring command from a PC (1) 2 or the like to the peripheral equipment 1 and processing the command by the peripheral equipment 1. The obtained attribute information is displayed on a CRT 33 (S1702). A "current user management mode" attribute 302 is acquired (S1703), and displayed on the CRT 33 (S1704). Input by the user is awaited (S1705), and the "current user management mode" attribute 302 is set according to the input from the user (S1706). The attribute information is set by transmitting an attribute setting command from the PC (1) 2 or the like to the peripheral equipment 1 and processing the command by the peripheral equipment 1.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT