User terminal apparatus and method of controlling thereof

A control method of a user terminal apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus and which is driven on an operating system (O/S) of WINDOWS, the control method comprising:

• receiving a first status message and address information of the image forming apparatus by using V4 driver communicating with the image forming apparatus;
• requesting a second status message that is more detailed than the first status message to the image forming apparatus by using a metro application previously stored in the user terminal apparatus and the address information;
• and
• displaying at least one of the first status message and the second status message on a user interface window provided by the metro application.

A user terminal apparatus which can connect to an image forming apparatus and which is driven on an operating system (O/S) of WINDOWS, comprising:

• a storage to store a metro application to provide a user interface window including status information of the image forming apparatus and a V4 driver communicating with the image forming apparatus;
• a communicating interface to receive a first status message and address information of the image forming apparatus by using the V4 driver;
• a controller to control the communicating interface to request a second status message that is more detailed than a first status message to the image forming apparatus by using the metro application and the address information;
• and
• a display to display at least one of the first status message and the second status message on a user interface window provided by the metro application.

A method of controlling a user terminal apparatus, comprising:

• receiving a first status message and address information of an image forming apparatus using a printer driver;
• determining whether requesting a second status message is required based on a type of the received first status message;
• displaying at least one of the first and second status messages in a pop-up format based on the determination and a metro application;
• and
• connecting a troubleshooting page by using at least one of the first and second status messages based on a user's selection thereof.