Perform image forming operations based on emergency
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorInhwan Cha
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Abstract
A method of operating an image forming apparatus includes receiving a request to perform an image forming operation, performing a calibration operation based on obtained urgency level information in response to the request, when a condition to perform a calibration is determined to be satisfied, the urgency level indicating a level of urgency to perform the image forming operation and the calibration is to standardize standardizing color representation of the image to be formed, and performing the image forming operation after the calibration operation is performed.
Claims15
A method of operating an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- receiving a request to perform an image forming operation;
- performing a calibration operation based on obtained urgency level information in response to the request, when a condition for performing a calibration is satisfied in the image forming apparatus, the urgency level indicating a level of urgency to perform the image forming operation and the calibration is to standardize color representation of the image to be formed;
- setting the urgency level of the image forming operation based on a priority order of users;
- and
- performing the image forming operation after the calibration operation is performed when the condition for performing the calibration is satisfied.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions executable by a processor to:
- receive a request to perform an image forming operation;
- perform a calibration operation based on obtained urgency level information in response to the request, when a condition for performing calibration is satisfied in an image forming apparatus, the urgency level indicating a level of urgency to perform the image forming operation and the calibration is set to standardize color representation of the image to be formed;
- set the urgency level of the image forming operation based on a priority order of communication methods by which image forming operations are requested;
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- perform the image forming operation after the calibration operation is performed when the condition for performing the calibration is satisfied.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a communication device to communicate with an external device;
- a user interface device;
- a processor;
- and
- a memory storing instructions executable by the processor,
- wherein, by executing the instructions, the processor:
- receives a request to perform an image forming operation through the external device or the user interface device, performs a calibration operation based on obtained urgency level information in response to the request, when a condition for performing calibration is satisfied in the image forming apparatus, the urgency level indicating a level of urgency of the image forming operation and the calibration is to standardize color representation of the image;
- sets the urgency level of the image forming operation based on a priority order of Internet protocol (IP) addresses of the requested image forming operations;
- and
- performs the image forming operation after the calibration operation is performed when the condition for performing the calibration is satisfied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.