Image forming apparatus to print traceable printout
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorDo Soon Lee
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a print engine, a communication apparatus to receive print data, and a processor to generate an intrinsic dot pattern for the print data, to generate a print image including the intrinsic dot pattern by using the generated intrinsic dot pattern and the print data, and to control the print engine to print the generated print image.
Claims20
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a print engine;
- a communication apparatus to receive print data;
- a scan apparatus to scan a manuscript;
- and
- a processor to:
- generate an intrinsic dot pattern for the print data;
- generate a print image including the intrinsic dot pattern by using the generated intrinsic dot pattern and the print data;
- control the print engine to print the generated print image;
- generate a scan image based on a signal output from the scan apparatus in response to a request for job performance;
- and
- based on a dot pattern being present in the generated scan image, determine whether to proceed with the requested job performance based on a document ID included in the dot pattern.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium including instructions for executing a print control method, the non-transitory computer-readable recording medium comprising:
- instructions for receiving print data;
- instructions for generating an intrinsic dot pattern for the print data;
- instructions for generating a print image including the dot pattern by using the generated dot pattern and the print data;
- instructions for controlling a print engine to print the generated print image;
- instructions for generating a scan image based on a signal output from a scan apparatus in response to a request for job performance;
- and
- instructions for, based on a dot pattern being present in the generated scan image, determining whether to proceed with the requested job performance based on a document ID included in the dot pattern.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a print engine;
- a communication apparatus;
- a scan apparatus to scan a manuscript;
- and
- a processor to:
- generate a scan image based on a signal output from the scan apparatus in response to a request for job performance;
- and
- based on a dot pattern being present in the generated scan image, determine whether to proceed with the requested job performance based on a document ID included in the dot pattern.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.