Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

S-printing Solution Co., Ltd.

Jung-soo Seo

Hyung-jong Kang

Tae-kyung Hwang

Sang-min Lee

Deok-hee Boo

Sung-joon Park

Jung-woon Jung

A scanning apparatus and a method thereof include a scanning unit scanning a document and outputting a scanned result, at least one external storage unit detachably attached to the apparatus, at least one internal storage unit, and a controller detecting an attachment state of the external storage unit and storing the scanned result in one of the external storage unit and the internal storage unit according to the attachment state of the external storage unit. The scanning unit of the scanning apparatus is combined with a user scanning unit and a user printing unit into a combination apparatus, and the scanned result is printed in a printing apparatus spaced-apart from the scanning apparatus by a distance, thereby removing cables between the scanning or printing apparatus and a personal computer. Regardless of an attachment state of the external storage unit, the document is scanned in the real time, and the scanning apparatus is commonly used with a plurality of personal computers which are not connected to the scanning apparatus.

Apparatus and method of scanning and/or printing an image

A server connected to an image forming apparatus and a client, a client, and a method of remotely installing a driver of the image forming apparatus. A method of remotely installing a driver of an image forming apparatus in which a server is connected to at least one image forming apparatus and at least one client, the method including selecting at least one client where a driver of the image forming apparatus is to be installed, selecting a kind of at least one driver to be installed in the selected at least one client, receiving status information from the selected at least one client, displaying installation information of the driver on the at least one selected client according to the received status information, and selectively installing the driver in the selected at least one client according to the display installation information.

Server connected to image forming apparatus and client, client, and method of remotely installing driver of image forming apparatus

An administrator terminal connected to an image forming apparatus and a client, an image forming system including the same, and a method to remotely an install a driver. The method to remotely an install a driver in an administrator terminal connecting with at least one image forming apparatus and at least one client includes searching for at least one image forming apparatus connected to the administrator terminal, selecting at least one client sharing and using the searched image forming apparatus, selecting an image forming apparatus server according to a network connection type of the image forming apparatus, and installing the driver of the image forming apparatus on the at least one selected client through the selected image forming apparatus server. Thus, at least one client is selected among clients where the driver is installed, and the driver is simultaneously installed according to the selected clients, thereby saving time and cost and providing a convenience to a user.

Administrator terminal connected to image forming apparatus and client, image forming system including the same, and remote installing method for driver thereof

A server connected with an image forming apparatus and a client, an image forming system having the same and a driver remote installation method of an image forming apparatus, the method including selecting at least one client in which a driver of the image forming apparatus is to be installed by the server; selecting a type of the driver to be installed in the at least one selected client; installing an install manager to install the driver in the at least one selected client; and installing the selected driver in the at least one selected client using the install manager.

Server connected with image forming apparatus and client, image forming system having the same, and driver remote installation method of image forming apparatus

A management apparatus to manage a device driver using a device driver package or a device driver configuration package and a method of managing the device driver of the management apparatus are provided. The management apparatus and the method are to deploy at least one of a device driver package to install a device driver using the device driver or a common device driver corresponding to at least one image forming apparatus and a device driver configuration package to modify a configuration of an installed device driver.

Management apparatus and method of managing device driver of management apparatus

An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface unit which allows the print controlling terminal to recognize the image forming apparatus as a printer, a determination unit which determines whether a printer driver of the image forming apparatus is installed in the print controlling terminal, a controlling unit which controls the communication interface unit to receive print data generated by the printer driver, and an image forming unit which prints the received print data, and the communication interface unit, if a printer driver is not installed in the print controlling terminal, controls the print controlling terminal to additionally recognize the image forming apparatus as an external storage medium and provides the print controlling terminal with a printer driver installation program stored in the external storage medium, and a method of performing the same.

Recognizing an image forming apparatus as a printer and an external storage device to reduce an initialization time of the image forming apparatus

A print control method of a host apparatus which is connected to at least one image forming apparatus in a network, the method including receiving changed IP information from the at least one image forming apparatus; determining whether the host apparatus performs a print job with respect to the image forming apparatus which has the changed IP information; holding the print job if there is the print job; changing a print option for the print job; and transmitting print data corresponding to the print job according to the changed print option. With this, the apparatus and the method may normally perform a print job by changing a port of an image forming apparatus and prevent data loss due to a failure to change the port normally even if there is a print job for an image forming apparatus whose IP address is changed.

Performing a print job by having a host change a port of an image forming apparatus if the IP address of the image forming apparatus has changed

A method and apparatus for installing a printer driver of an image forming apparatus in a printing environment using a universal printer driver, the method including: displaying one or more functions that are supported by one or more image forming apparatuses connected to the printing environment; selecting at least one function from among the displayed functions; and installing a printer driver of a connected image forming apparatus that supports the selected at least one function. Thus, even if a model name of the printer driver of the image forming apparatus to be used is not recognized, a printer driver of the image forming apparatus that supports the functions to be used can be installed.

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Suwon-si, South Korea

Jung-soo Seo