Image forming apparatus
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNorikazu Ochiai
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus connected to a network to which a plurality of computers are connected in order to enable communication, including a storage section which receives and stores user identification information for identifying a user of the computer together with printing information from the computer, a sheet counter section which prepares page information from the printing information, and a controller section which controls to print the user identification information and page information on a back surface of a sheet.
Claims24
An image forming apparatus connected to a network to which a plurality of computers are connected in order to enable communication, comprising:
- a storage section which receives and stores user identification information for identifying a user of a computer together with printing information from said computer;
- a sheet counter section which prepares page information from said printing information;
- and
- a controller section which controls to print said user identification information and the page information on a back surface of a sheet.
An image forming apparatus connected to a network to which a plurality of computers are connected in order to enable communication, comprising:
- a storage section which receives and stores printing information from the computer;
- a sheet counter section which prepares page information from said printing information;
- an identification information storage section which stores identification information applied to said each stored printing information;
- and
- a controller section which controls to print the identification information applied to said printing information together with said page information on a back surface of a sheet.
A method of operating an image forming apparatus connected to a network to which a plurality of computers are connected in order to enable communication, comprising:
- receiving and storing user identification information for identifying a user of the computer together with printing information from the computer;
- preparing page information from said printing information by a sheet counter section;
- and
- printing said user identification information and said page information on a back surface of a sheet.
A method of operating an image forming apparatus connected to a network to which a plurality of computers are connected in order to enable communication, comprising:
- receiving and storing printing information from the computer;
- preparing page information from said printing information by a sheet counter section;
- applying identification information to said each stored printing information from an identification information storage section which stores the identification information;
- and
- printing the identification information applied to said each printing information together with said page information on a back surface of a sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.