Image forming apparatus with user authentication
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsAkihiro MIZUTANI, Kazuhiro Ogura, Shinji Makishima, Toshihiro Ida
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus spools normal print requests received from external equipment as normal print jobs which are sequentially executed by a printer, spools a private print request received from an external equipment in a spooler as a private print job executed by a printer in response to an instruction by a user who has requested the private print, and changes a normal print job in an execution waiting state of the user which is spooled in the spooler to a private print job of the user in response to a request from the user authenticated by a user authenticating portion.
Claims18
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a user authenticating portion which authenticates a user,
- a first interface which performs data communication with another image forming apparatus, a second interface which receives a print request from external equipment,
- a spooler which spools a print request received by the second interface,
- a printer which executes a print job spooled in the spooler, and
- a controller which determines whether the print job in the execution waiting state of the user authenticated by the user authenticating portion exists or not, and moves the print job in an execution waiting state of the user spooled in the spooler to a spooler of another image forming apparatus connected via the first interface in response to a request from the user, if it is determined that the print job in the execution waiting state of the user exists.
An image forming method comprising:
- spooling a received print request as a print job in a spooler when the print request is received from external equipment,
- executing a print job spooled in the spooler,
- authenticating a user,
- receiving a request from the authenticated user to move a print job in the execution waiting state of the user to a spooler of another image forming apparatus which is data communicable when a print job in the execution waiting state of the authenticated user is present, and
- moving a print job spooled in the spooler and waiting for execution to a spooler of another image forming apparatus which is data communicable in response to a request from the authenticated user.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a user authenticating device which authenticates a user,
- an interface which performs data communication with another image forming apparatus and receives a print request from another image forming apparatus,
- a spooler which spools a print request received by the interface, and
- a controller which moves the print job in an execution waiting state of the user spooled in the spooler to another image forming apparatus in response to a request from the user authenticated by the user authenticating portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.