Printing control terminal device and method of printing XML paper specification (XPS) file

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9250833-B2
Application number	US-84491510-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 28, 2010
Priority date	Dec 17, 2009
Publication date	Feb 2, 2016
Grant date	Feb 2, 2016

Abstract

A printing control terminal device includes a user interface to receive a command to print an XPS file on an XPS viewer, an analyzing unit to analyze at least one of a print ticket, a core property, and a digital signature included in the XPS file, and to distinguish a first setting information to be applied to a printing job and a second setting information not to be applied to a printing job, a conversion unit to convert at least one of the print ticket, the core property, and the digital signature corresponding to the second distinguished setting information to be applied to the printing job, a driver to generate print data using the second converted setting information and the first setting information, and a communication interface to transmit the generated print data to the image forming apparatus.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A printing control terminal device to be communicatively coupled to at least one image forming apparatus, the printing control terminal device on which a printer driver to print an XML paper specification (XPS) file is not installed, the printing control terminal device comprising:
a user interface to receive a command to print an XPS file on an XPS viewer;
an analyzing unit to analyze a digital signature included in the XPS file, to distinguish a first setting information to be applied to a printing job and a second setting information not to be applied to a printing job, to determine whether the XPS file has one or more printing options contradictory to a corresponding printing option preset on a driver, and to control the user interface to display a listing of the one or more contradictory printing options when the contradictory one or more printing options is determined;
a conversion unit to convert the digital signature into a digital signature format to be applied to the printing job corresponding to the distinguished second setting information, and to convert printing option information into printing information by converting an unavailable printing option of the at least one image forming apparatus into an available printing option;
the driver to generate print data using the converted second setting information and the first setting information, or according to a selection received from the user interface for the contradictory option or the converted printing option; and
a communication interface to transmit the generated print data to the at least one image forming apparatus,
wherein the second setting information includes at least one of a core property, a banner output, N-up, a booklet, and a watermark.

2. The printing control terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the driver includes a printer command language (PCL) printer driver.

3. The printing control terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the setting information includes printing information on a legacy printer driver that is a non-XPS driver corresponding to a print ticket, and the analyzing unit distinguishes the first setting information when the printing information is applied to a printing job and distinguishes the second information when the printing information is not applied to a printing job.

4. The printing control terminal device of claim 1 , wherein:
the user interface displays the second setting information which is not applied to the printing job, and receives a selection of at least one setting to be applied to the printing job from among the second setting information; and
the driver generates print data using the second converted setting information corresponding to the selected information and the first setting information.

5. The printing control terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the driver generates the print data when the converted digital signature is valid.

6. The printing control terminal device of claim 5 , wherein the XPS file includes at least one digital signature, and the driver generates print data for an area corresponding to a valid digital signature.

7. The printing control terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the conversion unit converts a core property into a printer job language (PJL) command.

8. The printing control terminal device of claim 1 , wherein the conversion unit receives a print ticket included in the XPS file through a configuration module, and converts the received print ticket into printing information.

9. A method of printing an XML paper specification (XPS) file of a printing control terminal device to be communicatively coupled to at least one image forming apparatus, the printing control terminal device on which a printer driver to print an XML paper specification (XPS) file is not installed, the method comprising:
receiving a command to print an XPS file on an XPS viewer;
receiving the XPS file on a legacy printer driver that is a non-XPS driver;
analyzing a digital signature included in the XPS file, and distinguishing a first setting information to be applied to a printing job and a second setting information not to be applied to a printing job;
determining whether the XPS file has one or more printing options contradictory to a corresponding printing option preset on a driver, and displaying a listing of the one or more contradictory printing options on a user interface when the contradictory one or more options is determined;
converting the digital signature into a digital signal format to be applied to the printing job corresponding to the second distinguished setting information;
converting printing option information into printing information by converting an unavailable printing option of the at least one image forming apparatus into an available printing option;
generating print data using the second converted setting information and the first setting information or according to a selection received from the user interface for the contradictory option or the converted printing option; and
transmitting the generated print data to the image forming apparatus,
wherein the second setting information includes at least one of a core property, a banner output, N-up, a booklet, and a watermark.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the legacy printer driver includes a printer command language (PCL) printer driver.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein the setting information includes printing information on the legacy printer driver corresponding to the print ticket, and the analyzing distinguishes the first setting information when the printing information is applied to a printing job and distinguishes the second information when the printing information is not applied to a printing job.

12. The method of claim 9 , further comprising:
displaying the second setting information which is not applied to the printing job; and
receiving a selection of at least one setting to be applied to the printing job from among the second setting information,
wherein the generating generates print data using the second converted setting information corresponding to the selected information and the first setting information.

13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the generating generates the print data when the converted digital signature is valid.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the XPS file includes at least one digital signature, and the driver generates print data for an area corresponding to a valid digital signature.

15. The method of claim 9 , wherein the converting converts a core property into a printer job language (PJL) command.

16. A method of printing an XML paper specification (XPS) file of a printing control terminal device to be communicatively coupled to at least one image forming apparatus, the printing control terminal device on which a printer driver to print an XML paper specification (XPS) file is not installed, the method comprising:
receiving a command to print an XPS file on an XPS viewer;
receiving the XPS file on a legacy printer driver;
receiving a print ticket included in the XPS file through a configuration module;
distinguishing a first setting information to be applied to a printing job and a second setting information not to be applied to a printing job from the received XPS file including the print ticket according to a digital signature included in the XPS file;
determining whether the XPS file has one or more printing options contradictory to a corresponding printing option preset on a driver, and displaying a listing of the one or more contradictory printing options on a user interface when the contradictory one o

Assignees

• Kim Na-Young
• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Na-Young

Classifications

• G06F3/1208

  resulting in improved quality of the output result, e.g. print layout, colours, workflows, print preview · CPC title

• G06F3/1255

  Settings incompatibility, e.g. constraints, user requirements vs. device capabilities · CPC title

• G06F3/1246

  by handling markup languages, e.g. XSL, XML, HTML · CPC title

• G06F3/1206

  resulting in increased flexibility in input data format or job format or job type · CPC title

• G06F3/1205 Primary

  resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings, print requirements, job tickets · CPC title