Image forming apparatus connectable to multiple hosts and method of controlling image forming jobs of the image forming apparatus

摘要

An image forming apparatus connectable to multiple hosts includes a plurality of USB interfaces to connect with the respective multiple hosts to receive job request data for image forming jobs requested by the multiple hosts; a driver module to process the job request data received via the respective multiple USB interfaces; a USB data manager to generate job data that corresponds to each of types of the requested image forming jobs by using the processed job request data; and a main controller to control the image forming apparatus to perform the image forming jobs based on the generated job data.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus connectable to multiple hosts, the apparatus comprising:
a plurality of Universal Serial Bus (USB) interfaces to couple with the respective multiple hosts to receive job request data for image forming jobs requested by the respective multiple hosts; a plurality of USB driver modules to process the job request data received via the respective multiple USB interfaces; a USB data manager to generate job data in parallel that corresponds to each of types of the requested image forming jobs by using the processed job request data; and a main controller to control the image forming apparatus to perform the image forming jobs in parallel based on the generated job data, such that the image forming apparatus performs at least a portion of the image forming jobs simultaneously.