Image forming apparatus and image forming method involving reuse function
AssigneesToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha, Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorShinji Koizumi
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Abstract
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an authenticating section, a permitting section, and an input section. The authenticating section authenticates a user. The permitting section permits the user authenticated by the authenticating section to execute a new job using data associated with the user and stored concerning already-completed jobs. The input section enables the user to change at least one of conditions for execution of the new job with respect to the already-completed jobs permitted by the permitting section and input the condition.
Claims10
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- an authenticating section configured to authenticate a user;
- a permitting section configured to permit the user authenticated by the authenticating section to execute a new job using data associated with the user and stored concerning already-completed jobs;
- and
- an input section configured to enable the user to change at least one of conditions for execution of the new job with respect to the already-completed jobs permitted by the permitting section and input the condition.
An image forming method comprising:
- specifying that a user authenticated by personal authentication is a user who previously executed copying, output of a print, facsimile transmission, or the like of completed job data, reuse of which is instructed by the user;
- permitting the specified user to execute anew a completed job, reuse of which is instructed by the user;
- and
- changing at least one of execution conditions in the new execution of the completed job.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.