Control point and method for controlling print
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsBo-Yeon Kim, Dae-hyun Kim
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Abstract
A control point including a user interface to select an image forming apparatus to perform a printing job among image forming apparatuses connected using a digital living network alliance, a storage unit to store a lookup table which records at least one of information of printing data formats supportable by the selected image forming apparatus and printing time information, a format selector to select a printing data format based on the lookup table, a driver unit to generate printing data according to the selected printing data format, and a communication unit to transmit the generated printing data to the selected image forming apparatus.
Claims16
A control point which is connected to a plurality of image forming apparatuses using a digital living network alliance (DLNA), the control point comprising:
- a user interface to select an image forming apparatus to perform a printing job among the image forming apparatuses connected using the DLNA;
- a storage unit to store a lookup table which records at least one of information of printing data formats supportable by the selected image forming apparatus and printing time information;
- a format selector to select a printing data format based on the lookup table;
- a driver unit to generate printing data according to the selected printing data format;
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- a communication unit to transmit the generated printing data to the selected image forming apparatus.
A method for controlling a printing operation of a control point which is connected to a plurality of image forming apparatuses using a digital living network alliance (DLNA), the method comprising:
- selecting an image forming apparatus to perform a printing job among the image forming apparatuses connected using the DLNA;
- selecting a printing data format using a lookup table which records at least one of information of printing data formats supportable by the selected image forming apparatus and printing time information;
- generating printing data according to the selected printing data format;
- and
- transmitting the generated printing data to the selected image forming apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.