Host apparatus connected to image forming apparatus and information displaying method thereof

A host apparatus to control at least one image forming apparatus comprising:

• a user input unit input with selection by a user;
• a communication unit receiving a data of the image forming apparatus;
• a storage unit storing the data of the image forming apparatus;
• a display displaying a User Interface (UI) screen including a data area displaying the data by item and a graphic area displaying a graph of the data in the data area;
• and
• a controller determining whether a data of an added item can be graphicalized and controlling the display to display the data of the added item via graphicalization according to a determination result if receiving selection by a user that the data of the item in the data area is added to the graphic area,
• wherein the determining whether the data of the item added is graphicalizable comprises loading a conditional data on a preset graphicalization and determining on a basis of the loaded conditional data, and the conditional data is stored as in a form of a table.

An information display method of a data of an item for an image forming apparatus comprising:

• displaying a User interface (UI) screen on a display of a host apparatus connectable to the image forming apparatus including displaying the data of the item displaying a graph of the data;
• selecting a data of item;
• and
• determining whether the data of the item selected is graphicalizable;
• displaying the selected data of the item in a graphical visual form based on the determined result,
• wherein the determining whether the data of the item added is graphicalizable comprises loading a conditional data on a preset graphicalization and determining on the basis of the loaded conditional data, and the conditional data is stored as in a form of a table.