Abstract: A method for providing extended printer properties to a thin client is described. The method comprises communicating with a print server associated with a printer to scrape or grab an image of an extended printer properties interface for the printer from the print server display. The scraped image is then displayed at the client. User inputs input by a user on the image are then communicated to the print server for application to a print job. Changes to the displayed image, resulting from the user inputs, can be returned to the client. The print job can be transmitted to the print server in portable document format. A print server and a distributed computing network for implementing the method are also described.