In one embodiment of the invention, a method for printer driver initialization for a non-Microsoft Windows system, includes: copying a selected printer driver from a remote system to a local system, and installing the printer driver on the local system; initializing the printer driver on the local system and generating initialization information for the initialized printer driver; cloning the initialization information, and storing the cloned initialization information on the remote system; and binding the cloned initialization information to the selected printer driver. The remote system may be a non-Microsoft Windows system. The local system may be a Microsoft Windows system.