Image forming apparatus to reduce power consumption, host apparatus, and method of performing image forming job thereof
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsMan-suk Park, Seung-mo Moon, Jong-seung Lee, Hyo-su Jeong
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a memory, an interface to receive image data to perform an image forming job, and a controller to, when the image data is input in a power save mode of the image forming apparatus, send the image data to an external image forming apparatus, and when the image forming apparatus switches to a normal mode, control the image forming apparatus to perform an image forming job using the image data sent to the external image forming apparatus.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a memory;
- an interface to receive image data to perform an image forming job;
- and
- a controller to send time information on a second reservation time to switch the image forming apparatus from a power save mode to a normal mode to an external image forming apparatus, and when the image data is input in the power save mode of the image forming apparatus, send the image data to the external image forming apparatus, and when the image forming apparatus switches to the normal mode, control the image forming apparatus to perform an image forming job using the image data received from the external image forming apparatus based on the sent time information,
- wherein the second reservation time is input by a user separately from any image forming job.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an interface to receive from an external image forming apparatus image data to be printed by the external image forming apparatus and time information about a time to switch the external image forming apparatus from a power save mode to a normal mode;
- a memory to store the received image data;
- and
- a controller to, when a preset time related to the time information arrives send the stored image data to the external image forming apparatus,
- wherein the time to switch the external image forming apparatus is input by a user separately from any image forming job.
A method of performing a job of an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- sending time information on a second reservation time to switch the image forming apparatus from a power save mode to a normal mode to an external image forming apparatus;
- entering, at the image forming apparatus, the power save mode;
- when image data is input to the image forming apparatus while the image forming apparatus is in the power save mode, sending the image data to the external image forming apparatus;
- entering, at the image forming apparatus, the normal mode;
- and
- performing, at the image forming apparatus, an image forming job using the image data received from the external image forming apparatus based on the sent time information,
- wherein the second reservation time is input by a user separately from any image forming job.
A method of performing a job of an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- receiving from the external image forming apparatus time information about a time to switch an external image forming apparatus from a power save mode to a normal mode;
- receiving from the external image forming apparatus image data to be printed by the external image forming apparatus;
- storing the received image data in a memory;
- and
- when a preset time related to the time information arrives, sending the stored image data to the external image forming apparatus,
- wherein the time to switch the external image forming apparatus is input by a user separately from any image forming lob.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.