Patent ID: 8194269

Claim:
An image forming method using extensible hypertext markup language (XHTML)-print data of a device connected to an image forming apparatus, the method comprising: receiving at the device registration information about the image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus; generating at the device XHTML-Print data from print data using the registration information of the image forming apparatus, the XHTML-Print data being printable data in the image forming apparatus; transmitting the XHTML-Print data from the device to the image forming apparatus; and printing the XHTML-Print data with the image forming apparatus, wherein the registration information comprises at least one of print sheet size information, font information, monochrome/color information, and blank set information, the device comprises any one of a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), and an electronic apparatus, the XHTML-Print data is generated by the device without an imaging former driver of the image forming apparatus, and the print data, to be converted into the XHTML-Print data for printing, corresponds to web content including at least one of a hypertext markup language (HTML) data, and XHTML data, and an extensible markup language (XML).