Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshihiro ITOGAWA, Satoshi ESAKI
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Abstract
An MFP 1 includes an image forming unit 4 which forms an image on a sheet S1, a USB interface 12 which is to be connected to a PC 101 via a USB and receives a preceding command described in accordance with a control transfer protocol that is a transfer scheme of USB connection, and a CPU 91 which executes a preparation operation of the image forming unit 4, in response to receiving the preceding command by the USB interface 12. The preceding command is described to instruct the preparation operation of the image forming unit 4.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a USB interface configured to be connected to an external terminal via a USB and to receive a preceding command described in accordance with a control transfer protocol that is a transfer scheme of USB connection, the preceding command being described to instruct a preparation operation of the image forming unit;
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- a controller configured to execute the preparation operation of the image forming unit, in response to receiving the preceding command by the USB interface.
An image forming system comprising:
- an image forming apparatus;
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- an external terminal,
- wherein the image forming apparatus comprises:
- an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet;
- a USB interface configured to be connected to the external terminal via a USB and to receive a preceding command described in accordance with a control transfer protocol that is a transfer scheme of USB connection, the preceding command being described to instruct a preparation operation of the image forming unit;
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- a controller configured to execute the preparation operation of the image forming unit, in response to receiving the preceding command by the USB interface, and
- wherein the external terminal is configured to transmit the preceding command to the image forming apparatus in a case where the external terminal receives a printing instruction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.