Control method of host device reporting error information to a user, image forming system, image forming apparatus and host device employing the same
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorGeon-hoon Kim
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Abstract
A control method of a host device that avoids an error part through a user interface unit to use an image forming apparatus, an image forming system, an image forming apparatus and a host device employing the same, the control method including: requesting error information from the image forming apparatus in the host device; and displaying the error information of the image forming apparatus received from the image forming apparatus on a user interface unit of the host device.
Claims21
A control method of a host device connected to an image forming apparatus, the control method comprising:
- requesting, by the host device, error information from the image forming apparatus;
- and
- displaying the received error information on a user interface unit of the host device,
- wherein the error information comprises an error history of the image forming apparatus and information about an availability of each job mode of the image forming apparatus and the information about an availability of each job mode is displayed separately from the error history, the job mode corresponding to one of a type of job supported by the image forming apparatus and a type of job set by the host device.
An image forming system to provide error information to a user, the image forming system comprising:
- an image forming apparatus comprising:
- a storage unit to store the error information of the image forming apparatus, and
- a first controller to transmit the stored error information;
- and
- a host device comprising:
- a receiving unit to receive the transmitted error information,
- a second controller to provide an operation command for the image forming apparatus and to set an operation of the image forming apparatus, and
- a user interface unit to display the received error information of the image forming apparatus according to a job mode of the image forming apparatus, wherein the error information comprises an error history of the image forming apparatus and information about an availability of each job mode of the image forming apparatus and the information about an availability of each job mode is displayed separately from the error history, the job mode corresponding to one of a type of job supported by the image forming apparatus and a type of job set by the host device.
An image forming apparatus that is connected to a host device having a user interface unit displaying information supplied by the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- a storage unit to store error information of the image forming apparatus, wherein the error information comprises information about an availability of each job mode of the image forming apparatus;
- and
- a controller to supply the stored error information to the host device so that the error information is displayable on the user interface unit according to a job mode of the image forming apparatus and the information about an availability of each job mode is displayed separately from an error history of the image forming apparatus, the job mode corresponding to one of a type of job supported by the image forming apparatus and a type of job set by the host device.
A host device that is connected to an image forming apparatus that supplies error information to the host device, the host device comprising:
- a controller which provides an operation command for the image forming apparatus and sets an operation of the image forming apparatus;
- and
- a user interface unit to display the supplied error information of the image forming apparatus according to a job mode of the image forming apparatus, wherein the error information comprises an error history of the image forming apparatus and information about an availability of each job mode of the image forming apparatus and the information about an availability of each job mode is displayed separately from the error history, the job mode corresponding to one of a type of job supported by the image forming apparatus and a type of job set by the host device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.