Image forming apparatus, and method for controlling image forming apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNobuaki Fukasawa
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Abstract
In an image forming apparatus, control is performed to enable, when a print function is selected with a user being authenticated, a printing operation of document data of a user registered in an authentication database and associated with the authenticated user, among document data stored in a storage unit, and to enable, when the print function is selected in a logged-in state without individual authentication, a printing operation of document data of an unauthenticated user, among the document data stored in the storage unit.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus configured to, using a display unit configured to display information and an authentication unit configured to perform user authentication based on a user database in which information of an eligible user is registered, manage printing data in association with a user registered in the user database, and to cause the display unit to display a screen including a printing data list associated with a user authenticated by the authentication unit, the image forming apparatus comprising:
- one or more controllers having at least one processer executes programs or a circuitry realizing a specific function, the one or more controllers being configured to function as:
- a storage unit configured to store document data transmitted from outside;
- and
- unit configured to display, based on input of an instruction for causing the display unit to display a list of printable data in a state where a user has not been authenticated by the authentication unit, a screen including a printing data list not associated with any of the user registered in the user database
- wherein the screen including the printing data list associated with an authenticated user further includes a shared printing data list, and
- wherein the screen including the printing data list not associated with any of the users registered in the user database further includes a shared printing data list.
A method of controlling an image forming apparatus configured to, using a display unit configured to display information and an authentication unit configured to perform user authentication based on a user database in which information of an eligible user is registered, manage printing data in association with a user registered in the user database, and to cause the display unit to display a screen including a printing data list associated with a user authenticated by the authentication unit, the method comprising:
- causing the display unit to display a screen including a printing data list not associated with any of the users registered in the user database based on input of an instruction for causing the display unit to display a list of printable data in a state where a user has not been authenticated by the authentication unit
- wherein the screen including the printing data list associated with an authenticated user further includes a shared printing data list, and
- wherein the screen including the printing data list not associated with any of the users registered in the user database further includes a shared printing data list.
A method of controlling a printing apparatus, the method comprising:
- obtaining a result of personal authentication based on a user database in which a user capable of using the printing apparatus is registered;
- storing printing data transmitted from an outside;
- receiving an instruction from a user to display printable printing data;
- and
- performing display control such that, in a case where the instruction has been received in a state in which the personal authentication based on the user database has been performed, a list of printing data associated with an authenticated user among printing data that is stored is displayed, and in a case where the instruction has been received in a state in which the personal authentication based on the user database has not been performed, a list of printing data not associated with any of users registered in the user database among the printing data that is stored is displayed.
A printing apparatus comprising:
- an obtaining unit configured to obtain a result of personal authentication based on a user database in which identification information of a user capable of using the printing apparatus is registered;
- a storage unit configured to store printing data transmitted from an outside;
- a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction from a user to display printable printing data;
- and
- a display control unit configured to perform control such that, in a case where the instruction has been received in a state in which the personal authentication based on the user database has been performed, a list of printing data associated with an authenticated user among printing data stored in the storage unit is displayed, and such that, in a case where the instruction has been received in a state in which the personal authentication based on the user database has not been performed, a list of printing data not associated with any of users registered in the user database among the printing data stored in the storage unit is displayed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.