Controlling printing copies of a printable content
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsJang Geun KIM, Jin Myung JOO, Sang Woo KIM, Hyuk Jin GWON
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Abstract
Provided are an image forming apparatus and a method of controlling collated printing in an image forming apparatus. For example, the image forming apparatus comprises an image former, a communicator to receive a print request from a host device; a controller to convert at least one portion of the data received from the host device into print data corresponding to one copy of the printable content by the image former, in response to the print request; and a memory to store the print data. The controller is to, in response to determining that the memory stores the print data, control the image former to print the plurality of copies of the printable content.
Claims15
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image former;
- a communicator to receive a print request to print a plurality of copies of a printable content comprising at least one page and data corresponding to the plurality of copies of the printable content from a host device;
- a controller to convert at least one portion of the data received from the host device into print data corresponding to one copy of the printable content to be printable by the image former, in response to the print request;
- and
- a memory to store the print data corresponding to the one copy of the printable content,
- wherein, the controller is to, in response to determining that the memory stores the print data corresponding to the one copy of the printable content, control the image former to print the plurality of copies of the printable content using the print data corresponding to the one copy of the printable content.
A method of controlling collated printing in an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:
- receiving a print request to print a plurality of copies of printable content comprising at least one page and data corresponding to the plurality of copies of the printable content from a host device;
- converting at least one portion of the data received from the host device into print data corresponding to one copy of the printable content to be printable by a image former of the image forming apparatus, in response to the print request;
- storing the print data corresponding to the one copy of the printable content in a memory;
- and
- in response to determining that the memory stores the print data corresponding to the one copy of the printable content, controlling the image former to print the plurality of copies of the printable content using the print data corresponding to the one copy of the printable content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.