Image forming apparatus and control method therefor, program for implementing the method, and printing system
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNaoki Tsuchitoi
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus which can suppress disordered printing-out by a user and contribute to a reduction in TCO. A print job received through a network 104 is printed out by printing apparatus 103 that includes a host computer 101 and an authentication server 102. The authentication server 102 acquires limiting information which limits output of the print job. The host computer 101 limits printing setting for the print job in accordance with the limiting information acquired by the authentication server 102.
Claims36
An image forming apparatus which prints out a print job received through a network, comprising:
- an acquisition device that acquires limiting information which limits output of the print job;
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- a limitation device that limits printing setting for the print job in accordance with the limiting information acquired by said acquisition device.
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a transmission device -that transmits authentication information;
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- an acquisition device that acquires limiting information for limiting setting for a print job transmitted in response to the authentication information being transmitted by said transmission device,
- wherein said transmission device transmits the print job to a printing apparatus together with the limiting information acquired by said acquisition device.
A control method for an image forming apparatus which prints out a print job received through a network, comprising:
- an acquisition step of acquiring limiting information which limits output of the print job;
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- a limitation step of limiting printing setting for the print job in accordance with the limiting information acquired in the acquisition step.
An information processing method comprising:
- a transmission step of transmitting authentication information;
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- an acquisition step of acquiring limiting information for limiting setting for a print job transmitted in response to the authentication information being transmitted in the transmission step,
- wherein in the transmission step, the print job is transmitted to a printing apparatus together with the limiting information acquired in the acquisition step.
A printing system having a first information processing apparatus for creating a print job, an image forming apparatus for performing printing based on the print job, and a second information processing apparatus for performing authentication for the print job that are connected to one another through a network, comprising:
- an authentication request device in the first information processing apparatus that issues an authentication request to the second information processing apparatus at a time of creation of the print job;
- a limiting information acquisition device in the first information processing apparatus that acquires limiting information corresponding to the print job from the second information processing apparatus;
- a print job transmission device in the first information processing apparatus that attaches the acquired limiting information to the print job as a job ticket and transmits the print job to the image forming apparatus;
- a limiting information determination device in the image forming apparatus that analyzes the received print job and determines whether the job ticket is attached;
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- a printing device in the image forming apparatus that imposes, with the limiting information described in the job ticket, a predetermined limitation on printing-out of the print job when the. job ticket is attached to the print job.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.