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AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsTae-joon Chung, Yeon-jung Lim
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An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface unit which receives print data, an image forming unit which prints the received print data, a volatile memory which, if the received print data is data that needs to be stored, stores the received print data, and a controller which, if a power-off command regarding the image forming apparatus is input, backs up print data stored in the volatile memory in a storage medium connectable to the image forming apparatus and converts an operation mode of the image forming apparatus to a power-off mode.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
An image forming method of an image forming apparatus, comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable recording medium including a program to execute an image forming method, wherein the image forming method comprises:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.
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Conditioning data for presenting it to the physical printing elements: input data handling means
Input data handling means: buffers
Details not directly involved in printing, e.g. machine management, management of the arrangement as a whole or of its constitutive parts:…
Managing power consumption, e.g. standby mode: wake-up procedures
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This application claims the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 2012-126266, filed in the Korean Intellectual Property Office on Nov. 8, 2012, the content of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
1. Field of the Invention
The present general inventive concept relates to an image forming apparatus, an image forming method, and a computer-readable recording medium, and more particularly, to an image forming apparatus capable of preventing loss of print data stored in a volatile memory of the image forming apparatus, an image forming method, and a computer-recording medium.
These and/or other features and utilities of the present general inventive concept will become apparent and more readily appreciated from the following description of the embodiments, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating configuration of an image forming apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment;
FIGS. 2 and 3 are views illustrating various examples of a user interface window which can be displayed on a user interface unit of FIG. 1;
Reference will now be made in detail to the embodiments of the present general inventive concept, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like reference numerals refer to the like elements throughout. The embodiments are described below in order to explain the present general inventive concept by referring to the figures.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating configuration of an image forming apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment.
Referring to FIG. 1, an image forming apparatus 100 according to an exemplary embodiment comprises a communication interface unit 110, a user interface unit 120, a volatile memory 130, an encryption unit 140, an image forming unit 150, and a controller 160. Herein, the image forming apparatus may be a copy machine, a printer, a fax machine, or a Multi-Function Peripheral (MFP) which performs all of the above listed functions in a single device.