Image forming apparatus and image forming method
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorSun-kye HWANG
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus may include an image forming unit to form image data according to a selected image forming option, a user interface to specify an option name and a corresponding image forming option, a storage section to store the corresponding image forming option and formed image data matched to the option name, and a control section to receive a request signal with a target option name from a networked image forming apparatus, the control section to determine whether stored option names match the received target option name. Embodiments of an image forming apparatus can perform an image forming operation only with the option name by matching the image forming option and/or the image data to the option name.
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An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming section to form image data according to a set image forming option;
- a user interface to endow an option name capable of being specified with respect to the set image forming option;
- a storage section to match the set image forming option and the formed image data to the option name and to store the set image forming option and the formed image data;
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- a control section to transmit at least one of the image forming option and the image data matched to a same option name as a target option name to another image forming apparatus, if a request signal including the target option name is received from said another image forming apparatus.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an interface section to perform transmission and reception of data to and from an external network;
- a user interface section to input a search option name;
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- a control section to receive at least one of an image forming option or image data matched to the search option name by transmitting a request signal including the search option name to the external network through the interface section.
An image forming method of a first image forming apparatus connected to a second image forming apparatus through an interface comprising:
- endowing a first option name capable of being specified with respect to a set image forming option;
- forming image data by scanning a document according to the set image forming option;
- matching the set image forming option and the formed image data to the first option name and storing the set image forming option and the formed image data;
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- transmitting at least one of the image forming option or the image data matched to the first option name to the second image forming apparatus when a request signal including a target option name matched to the first option name is received from the second image forming apparatus.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit to form image data according to a selected image forming option;
- a user interface to specify an option name and a corresponding image forming option to include at least one characteristic of image forming;
- a storage section to store the corresponding image forming option and formed image data matched to the option name;
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- a control section to receive a request signal with a target option name from a networked image forming apparatus, the control section to determine whether stored option names match the received target option name.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an interface section to perform transmission and reception of data to and from an external network;
- a user interface section to input a search option name;
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- a control section to receive at least one of an image forming option or image data matched to the search option name by transmitting a request signal including the search option name to the external network through the interface section.
An image forming method comprising:
- providing an option identifier for a corresponding image forming option configured to have at least one image forming parameter;
- forming image data by scanning according to a selected image forming option;
- storing one or more of a corresponding image forming option or a corresponding image data matched to each option identifier;
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- transmitting at least one of the image forming option or the image data matched to a first option identifier from a first image forming apparatus to a second image forming apparatus when a request signal including a target option name corresponding to the first option identifier is received from the second image forming apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.