Image forming apparatus and image forming method
AssigneeOki Data Corporation
InventorHidehito JINGU
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes: a web server configured to prompt a user to specify a file as a printing target by an external apparatus and to input information of the user by the external apparatus; an authentication unit configured to authenticate the user based on the input information input by the external apparatus; a transmission/reception unit configured to transmit permission or denial to transmit data from the external apparatus based on an authentication result of the authentication unit; and a print data converter configured to convert the data received from the external apparatus into a printable format.
Claims19
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a web server configured to prompt a user to specify a file as a printing target by an external apparatus and to input user information by the external apparatus;
- an authentication unit configured to authenticate the user based on the user information input by the external apparatus;
- a transmission/reception unit configured to transmit permission or denial to transmit data from the external apparatus based on an authentication result of the authentication unit;
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- a print data converter configured to convert the data received from the external apparatus into a printable format.
An image forming method of an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- when a file is specified as a printing target by an external apparatus and user information is input by the external apparatus, executing authentication of the input information;
- transmitting permission or denial to transmit data from the external apparatus in response to a result of the authentication;
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- converting the transmitted data from the external apparatus into a printable format for printing the data.
A image forming apparatus comprising:
- a web server configured to prompt a user to specify a file as a printing target by an external apparatus and to input user information by the external apparatus;
- an authentication unit configured to determine if the user is authorized to execute a direct print based on the input user information input by the external apparatus;
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- a print data converter configured to convert data received from the external apparatus into a printable format to execute the direct print authorized by the authentication unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.