Providing printed confidential documents
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsShinoj Bhaskaran, Pooja
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Abstract
Examples of providing printed confidential documents are described herein. In an example, a printing system includes at least two protected trays to store printed confidential documents. The at least two protected trays may be coupled to each other to enable transfer of the printed confidential documents between the at least two protected trays. Further, an output tray may be coupled to at least one of the at least two protected trays to provide the printed confidential documents for collection. Furthermore, on receiving an authentication input, the printed confidential documents may be transferred from one of the at least two protected trays to the output tray.
Claims17
A printing system comprising:
- a processor;
- at least two protected trays to store printed confidential documents, the at least two protected trays coupled to each other to enable transfer of the printed confidential documents between the at least two protected trays;
- an output tray coupled to at least one of the at least two protected trays to provide the printed confidential documents for collection;
- and
- a document manager coupled to the processor to:
- receive an authentication input associated with a first print job,
- responsive to receiving the authentication input associated with the first print job, identify a first protected tray of the at least two protected trays which is storing the printed confidential documents of the print job and transfer the printed confidential documents of a second print job from the first protected tray to a second protected tray of the at least two protected trays, wherein the first print job is authenticated according to the authentication input, and the second print job is yet to be authenticated, and
- responsively transfer the printed confidential documents associated with the first print job from the first protected tray to the output tray.
A method for providing printed confidential documents of a print job, the method comprising:
- on receiving an authentication input for the print job, identifying a protected tray storing the printed confidential documents of an authenticated print job, the protected tray identified from among two protected trays coupled to each other for transfer of documents from one protected tray to an other protected tray;
- transferring printed confidential documents of yet-to-be-authenticated printed jobs from the identified protected tray to the other protected tray prior to ejecting the printed confidential documents of the authenticated print job from the identified protected tray to the output tray, wherein the authenticated print job is authenticated in that the authentication input for the print job has been received, and the yet-to-be-authenticated print job is yet to be authenticated in that no authentication input for the print job has not yet been received;
- and
- ejecting the printed confidential documents of the authenticated print job from the identified protected tray to an output tray for collection.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having a set of computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to:
- identify, from among at least two coupled protected trays, a protected tray storing printed confidential documents of an authenticated print job, wherein the protected tray is identified using print job data including information pertaining to each print job in each of the at least two coupled protected trays;
- in response to identifying the protected tray, convey the printed confidential documents of yet-to-be-authenticated print jobs from the identified protected tray to another protected tray of the at least two coupled protected trays;
- and
- after conveying the printed confidential documents of the yet-to-be-authenticated print jobs, transfer the printed confidential documents of the authenticated print job from the identified protected tray to an output tray for collection,
- wherein a print job including confidential documents transitions from being a yet-to-be-authenticated print job to an authenticated print job responsive to an authentication input associated with the print job being received.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.