Print control apparatus and printticket control method
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYong-in Eom, Young-soo Han
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Abstract
A print control apparatus includes a determining unit to search for one or more PrintTickets for each level within an XML paper specification (XPS) file in response to an XPS file print command, and to determine whether the one or more PrintTickets found as a result of searching conflict with each other within the XPS file, a user interface, and a controller to control the user interface to display one or more conflicting PrintTickets if it is determined that the one or more PrintTickets conflict with each other within the XPS file. Therefore, it is possible for a user to easily determine which PrintTickets conflict with each other within the XPS file and to readily control these conflicting PrintTickets.
Claims16
A print control apparatus comprising:
- a determining unit to search for two or more PrintTickets for two or more levels within an XML paper specification (XPS) file in response to an XPS file print command to perform a print operation, the two or more levels of PrintTickets comprising at least two of a job level, a document level and a page level, and to determine whether the two or more PrintTickets found as a result of searching conflict with each other within the XPS file;
- a user interface;
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- a controller to control the user interface to display two or more conflicting PrintTickets if it is determined that the two or more PrintTickets conflict with each other within the XPS file
- wherein the user interface displays a user interface window, which comprises a first area to display the two or more conflicting PrintTicket options within the XPS file and a second area to display user-selectable levels corresponding to PrintTickets from among the two or more conflicting PrintTickets, and previews a print job to be set when at least one of the user-selectable levels of the PrintTickets is selected from among the user selectable levels of the PrintTickets.
A PrintTicket control method comprising:
- receiving a command to print an XML paper specification (XPS) file in a print operation;
- searching for two or more levels of PrintTickets of different levels within the XPS file, the different levels of PrintTickets comprising at least two of a job level, a document level and a page level in response to the command;
- determining whether the two or more PrintTickets found as a result of searching conflict with each other within the XPS file;
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- displaying conflicting levels of PrintTickets if it is determined that the two or more levels of PrintTickets conflict with each other within the XPS file
- wherein the displaying of the two or more conflicting Print Tickets comprises a user interface window, which comprises a first area to display the two or more conflicting PrintTickets options within the XPS file and a second area to display levels corresponding to PrintTickets selectable from among the two or more conflicting levels of PrintTickets and previewing a print job to be set when at least one level of PrintTicket is selected from among the selectable different levels of PrintTickets.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.