Cloud printing system and method using image forming apparatus

摘要

A cloud printing method using a image forming apparatus includes selecting content for printing in a mobile terminal and connecting a location storage server and receiving location information of image forming apparatuses via the mobile terminal. The method also included displaying locations of the image forming apparatuses on a screen of the mobile terminal, based on the received location information and transmitting the content to a cloud server via the mobile terminal. The method further includes near field communication tagging the mobile terminal to a selected one of the image forming apparatuses and receiving the content from the cloud server and printing the content, via the selected one of the image forming apparatuses with respect to which the near field communication tagging is performed.

主权项

1. A cloud printing method using an image forming apparatus among plural image forming apparatuses, the method comprising:
selecting content for printing in a mobile terminal; connecting a location storage server storing location information of image forming apparatuses via the mobile terminal; displaying locations of the image forming apparatuses on a screen of the mobile terminal, based on the location information; transmitting the content selected for printing to a cloud server via the mobile terminal; near field communication (NFC) tagging the mobile terminal to one of the image forming apparatuses; and receiving the content from the cloud server and printing the content via the NFC tagged image forming apparatus, wherein the cloud server comprises an email server, a rendering server, and a pull print server.