Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Aleksei Mulin

Chang-Soo Park

Gi Won Seo

An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a printing engine, memory to store information indicating correspondences of a plurality of file types and uniform resource identifier (URI) addresses of rendering subjects to render printing data of each file type of the plurality of file types in correspondence to each of a plurality of external apparatuses, a communication device to receive a file by a direct printing function method from an external apparatus, and a processor to identify the type of the received file, determine a URI address corresponding to the identified file type and the external apparatus, according to the information indicating correspondences, control the communication device to transmit the received file to the determined URI address, and receive, from the determined URI address, rendered data corresponding to the file.

Image forming apparatus providing distributed rendering service

An image forming apparatus and a method of operating an electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes executing an application for controlling an operation of the image forming apparatus, in the electronic apparatus, identifying a first image forming apparatus to be connected to the electronic apparatus and performing communication connection between the electronic apparatus and the first image forming apparatus, receiving an application list including at least one application installed in the first image forming apparatus from the first image forming apparatus and displaying the application list, receiving a first input for selecting a first application of the first image forming apparatus to be controlled by the electronic apparatus, based on the application list, and displaying a screen for setting a certain function supported by the first application, based on at least one input that is input after the first input.

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Aleksei Mulin