Printing system and method of printing data on a designated paper

• US 20060164680A1
• Filed: 01/19/2006
• Published: 07/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/25/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HP Printing Korea Co., Ltd. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Hyuck
• Granted Patent: US 7,787,140 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.150
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1205 resulting in increased flexibility in print job configuration, e.g. job settings, print requirements, job tickets
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1207 resulting in the user being informed about print result after a job submission
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1256 User feedback, e.g. print preview, test print, proofing, pre-flight checks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1284 Local printer device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1292 Mobile client, e.g. wireless printing

Abstract

A printing system which includes a printer connected with at least one user terminal by a wire or wirelessly to print printing data transmitted from the user terminal, prevents printing of data before a special printing job and a printing method for the same. In the printing system, the user terminal connectable with the printer includes a printer driver to set a pause mode to temporarily prevent a printing operation in the printer, and a monitoring program unit to monitor an operation status of the printer and to display information supplied from the printer on the pause-set printing data. The printer includes a control unit to inform the user terminal the pause-set printing data is printed, upon receiving the pause-set printing data and to control second printing data supplied from a second user terminal to stand by.

Claims

1. A printing system which includes a printer to print printing data, the printing system comprising:

at least one user terminal connectable with a printer and having a printer driver to set a pause mode to temporarily prevent a printing operation of printing the printing data in the printer, and a monitoring unit to monitor an operation status of the printer and to display information on pause-set printing data supplied from the printer according to the pause mode,

wherein the printer comprises a control unit to inform the at least one user terminal of information on when the pause-set printing data is printed, upon receiving the pause-set printing data, and to control second printing data supplied from a second user terminal to stand by.

2. The printing system of claim 1, wherein when a printing command is input by the user within a predetermined waiting time after informing the at least one terminal of a time to print the pause-set printing data, the control unit controls to print the pause-set printing data.

3. The printing system of claim 2, wherein the control unit determines whether the second printing data exists, after the predetermined waiting time.

4. The printing system of claim 3, wherein, when the second printing data exists, the control unit prints a preset number of the second printing data.

5. The printing system of claim 4, wherein, when the second printing data is printed, the control unit informs the at least one user terminal of the time to print the pause-set printing data.

6. The printing system of claim 4, wherein, when the second printing data does not exist, the control unit informs the at least one user terminal of the time to print the pause-set printing data.

7. The printing system of claim 5, wherein, after printing the second printing data, the control unit informs the at least one user terminal of the time to print the pause-set printing data, and after a predetermined time, counts a predetermined number of repetitions of serial processes of waiting for the predetermined waiting time and printing the second printing data.

8. The printing system of claim 7, wherein, after the serial processes are repeated the predetermined number of repetitions, the control unit deletes the printing data.

9. The printing system of claim 7, wherein, after the serial processes are repeated the predetermined number of repetitions, the control unit stores the printing data in a memory.

10. The printing system of claim 7, further comprising:

a counter to count the preset number of the latter-order printing data and the predetermined number of repetitions.

11. A printing method in a printing system having a printer connected with at least one user terminal by a wire or wirelessly to print printing data transmitted from the at least one user terminal, the method comprising:

setting a pause mode in the at least one user terminal to temporarily prevent a printing operation;

determining whether pause-set printing data corresponding to the printing data is received from the printer;

informing the at least one user terminal of a time to print the pause-set printing data; and

controlling second printing data supplied from second user terminal connected to the printer to stand by until a predetermined waiting time elapses.

12. The printing method of claim 11, further comprising:

after informing the at least one user terminal of the time to print the pause-set printing data determining whether a printing command is input within the predetermined waiting time; and

upon determining that the printing command is input within the predetermined waiting time, printing the pause-set printing data.

13. The printing method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining whether the second printing data exists when the printing command is not input within the predetermined waiting time.

14. The printing method of claim 13, further comprising:

printing the second printing data a predetermined number of times when the second printing data exists.

15. The printing method of claim 14, further comprising:

informing the user terminal of the time to print the pause-set printing data after the second printing data are printed.

16. The printing method of claim 13, further comprising:

informing the user terminal of the time to print the pause-set printing data when the second printing data does not exist.

17. The printing method of claim 15, further comprising:

determining whether the predetermined time has elapsed after informing the user terminal of the time to print the pause-set printing data; and

counting a number of repetitions of serial processes of waiting for the predetermined waiting time and printing the second printing data.

18. The printing method of claim 17, further comprising:

deleting the printing data after repeating the serial processes a predetermined number of repetitions times.

19. The printing method of claim 17, further comprising:

storing the pause-set printing data in a memory after repeating the serial processes a predetermined number of repetitions times.

20. A printing system to print printing data, comprising:

a terminal to transmit printing data to be printed, to select a pause mode with respect to the printing data, to prevent the transmitted printing data from being printed until a specific printing command is input, and to transmit information on the pause mode with respect to the printing data; and

a printer to receive the printing data having the information on the pause mode to prevent the printing data from being printed until the specific printing command is input, to receive second printing data between a first time in which the information on the pause mode is received and a second time in which the specific printing command is input, and to prevent the second printing data from being printed according to a determination of whether a predetermined period of time lapses or the first printing data is printed.