Print terminal unit and method of controlling print
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoung-gu Kim, Don-seon Lee, Chang-shin Park
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Abstract
A print terminal unit includes a storage unit to store a lookup table on which information regarding an image forming apparatus corresponding to at least one type of a document is recorded, a user interface through which at least one type of at least one document to be printed is selected, and a controller to control an image forming apparatus that corresponds to the selected type of the document among the plurality of image forming apparatuses according to the lookup table to print the document. Accordingly, the user easily performs printing operation using an image forming apparatus separately depending on the type of the document.
Claims20
A print terminal unit which is connectable to a plurality of image forming apparatuses, the print terminal unit comprising:
- a storage unit to store a lookup table on which information regarding an image forming apparatus corresponding to at least one type of a document is recorded;
- a user interface through which at least one type of at least one document to be printed is selected;
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- a controller to control an image forming apparatus that corresponds to the selected type of the document among the plurality of image forming apparatuses according to the lookup table to print the document, the type of the document being associated with a content of the document.
A method of controlling print of a print terminal unit which is connectable to a plurality of image forming apparatuses, the method comprising:
- receiving selection of at least one type of at least one document to be printed;
- determining an image forming apparatus that corresponds to the selected at least one type of the document among the plurality of image forming apparatuses, using information regarding an image forming apparatus corresponding to a type of a document, the at least one type of the document being associated with a content of the at least one document;
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- printing the document through the determined image forming apparatus.
A print terminal unit, comprising:
- a storage unit to store information regarding one or more document types associated with at least one of a plurality of image forming apparatuses;
- a determination unit to determine, among the image forming apparatuses, an image forming apparatus associated with the document type of a document based on the information, the document type of the document being associated with a content of the document;
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- a controller to control the determined image forming apparatus to print the document.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.