Patent ID: 9250833
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
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.