Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface unit to perform communication with a cloud server that provides an application service; a user interface unit to display a screen and receive a user input; a storage unit to store a database that corresponds to an application that is installed in the image forming apparatus; an image forming operation performing unit to perform an image forming operation; and a control unit that stores user log-in information in the database that corresponds to the application, so as to match the user log-in information with a user account for the image forming apparatus, and manages a log-in to a user account for the application by using the stored user log-in information.
Abstract:
An initial setup method of an image forming apparatus using near field communication (NFC) according to an embodiment includes determining whether initial setup of the image forming apparatus is needed; displaying an initial setup menu on a display unit of the image forming apparatus when it is determined that the initial setup is needed; receiving initial setup data stored in the mobile terminal through NFC by the image forming apparatus when the mobile terminal is NFC tagged with the image forming apparatus; and performing initial setup of the image forming apparatus in accordance with the received initial setup data.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method of transmitting a document between Multi-Function Products (MFPs) via a network, in which an MFP groups client devices and transmits a document to a plurality of client devices that belong to each group. When a plurality of image forming devices are connected to one another through a network, the apparatus includes a scanning portion for scanning a document and producing image data, a user interface for selecting a command for performing a function or a desired image forming device, a network interface connected to the image forming devices over the network for transmitting the scanned document to the selected image forming device, a display portion, and a controller for controlling the display portion to display information about the image forming devices existing on the network and transmitting the scanned image data to the selected image forming device via the network.
Abstract:
A method of performing cloud printing is provided. The method may include generating a virtual apparatus corresponding to an image forming apparatus in a mobile device, receiving, by the mobile device, a job request for the virtual apparatus, and when the mobile device is connected to the image forming apparatus, transmitting the received job request to the image forming apparatus.