Patent ID: 9374495
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. A printing system comprising: a first printer including a first print engine and a first processor which controls the operation of the first print engine; a scanner which scans a hardcopy document and generates image data therefrom, the scanner being associated with the first printer for communicating the image data to the first printer; a second printer, operable independently of the first printer, which is communicatively linked to the first printer, the second printer including a second print engine and a second processor which controls the operation of the second print engine; and the first printer including a graphical user interface, through which user selections for scanning hardcopy documents with the scanner and for printing the scanned images are communicated to the first processor; the first processor having a first mode of operation in which a print job derived from the image data is printed on the first print engine and a second mode of operation in which a print job is exported to the second printer for printing on the second print engine, at least one of the first and second modes of operation being invoked at least in part by user interaction with the graphical user interface.