Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

S-printing Solution Co., Ltd.

Woo-chul Shin

Jun-Young Choi

Seung-wan Lee

Hee-jung Kim

Mi-kyung Choi

An image forming device includes a communication unit to transmit data to and receive data from an external device, an image forming job unit to perform printing, and a controller to control warming up of the image forming job unit to perform the printing, such that the image forming job unit performs the printing after the warming up is completed. The controller is to receive a print execution request to perform the printing and a predicted value of a print preparation time for the image forming device to create output image data, to perform the printing, from the external device via the communication unit, determine a warm-up start time of when to start the warming up of the image forming job unit by using the received predicted value of the print preparation time, and control the image forming job unit to start the warming up at the determined warm-up start time.

Image forming device to determine warm-up time

A printing control apparatus includes a user interface configured to receive a selection of a printing option to be applied to a document, and to display, in response to a favorite printing option being the selection of the printing option, information about a method for a preselected printing option, a printer driver configured to establish the printing option to be applied to the document according to the information about the method, and to generate printing data according to the printing option, and a communication interface configured to transmit the printing data to an image forming apparatus.

Printing control method, and apparatus and computer-readable recording medium thereof

A printing control apparatus includes a display unit to display a preview screen of a document to print, a control unit to extract objects included in the document displayed on the preview screen and individually set a printing option corresponding to an object selected by a user from among the extracted objects, and a printing data generation unit to generate printing data corresponding to the set printing option and to spool the printing data.

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Osan-si, South Korea

Woo-chul Shin