Overview of Printer Functions
This section describes the overview and connection environment of the image controller that provides the printer function.
Print flows
The following outlines the flow of operations for using this machine as a printer.
Print data sent from an application is received by the printer driver.
The data is sent to the image controller via the USB interface for USB connection or via Ethernet (TCP/IP, etc.) for network connection. Then the data is passed from the image controller to this machine.
The image controller rasterizes images (expands output target characters and images to bitmap data).
This data is printed from this machine.
Role of the image controller
This machine with the built-in image controller provides the printing system. Printing is available from the application on the computer connected to this printing system.
The image controller provides the following functions.
Printing data sent from a printer driver on a computer
Support of network protocols including TCP/IP (IPv4/IPv6), IPX/SPX, and Bonjour
Printing via a network using Web service, SMB (Windows), LPR or IPP printing
Configuring settings for the machine and the image controller from a client computer via the network (using a Web browser)
Control of the number of pages to be printed (the User Authentication and Account Track functions)