Printing system, printing apparatus, and control method of printing apparatus
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSatoshi Otaka
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Abstract
When performing authenticated printing, an administrator must minutely grasp the consistency between account registered information held by a printer and account information input by each user, and this complicates an updating work. In addition, the user cannot perform printing if this updating work is not performed. In an embodiment of the present invention, therefore, the administrator sets a secondary identifier group updatable by a user, and the account registered information is automatically updated based on the account information input by the user.
Claims16
A printing system comprising a host apparatus which transmits a print job from a user and issues an instruction for authenticated printing, and a printing apparatus which is connected to the host apparatus, receives the print job and the instruction for authenticated printing, and performs authenticated printing, wherein the printing apparatus comprises:
- a storage unit configured to store account registered information for each user input by an administrator of the printing system beforehand;
- an authentication unit configured to authenticate the user based on the instruction for authenticated printing;
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- an update unit configured to update, in a case where it is determined by authentication by the authentication unit that a portion of account information input by the user and a portion of the account registered information stored in the storage unit match and remaining portions do not match, the storage unit with respect to the remaining portions found to be mismatching portions, based on the account information input by the user.
A printing apparatus which receives a print job and an instruction for authenticated printing from a user, transmitted from a host apparatus, and performs authenticated printing, comprising:
- a storage unit configured to store account registered information for each user input beforehand by an administrator of a printing system including the host apparatus and the printing apparatus;
- an authentication unit configured to authenticate the user based on the instruction for authenticated printing;
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- an update unit configured to update, in a case where it is determined by authentication by the authentication unit that a portion of account information input by the user and a portion of the account registered information stored in the storage unit match and remaining portions do not match, the storage unit with respect to the remaining portions found to be mismatching portions, based on the account information input by the user.
A control method of a printing apparatus which receives a print job and an instruction for authenticated printing from a user, transmitted from a host apparatus, and performs authenticated printing, comprising:
- storing, in a storage unit, account registered information for each user input beforehand by an administrator of a printing system including the host apparatus and the printing apparatus;
- authenticating the user based on the instruction for authenticated printing;
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- in a case where it is determined by the authenticating that a portion of account information input by the user and a portion of the account registered information stored in the storage unit match and remaining portions do not match, updating the storage unit with respect to the remaining portions found to be mismatching portions, based on the account information input by the user.
A non-transitory computer readable storage which stores a computer program to be executed in a printing apparatus which is capable of receiving a print job and an instruction for authenticated printing from a user, transmitted from a host apparatus, and performing authenticated printing, the program comprising:
- storing, in a storage unit, account registered information for each user input beforehand by an administrator of a printing system including the host apparatus and the printing apparatus;
- authenticating the user based on the instruction for authenticated printing;
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- in a case where it is determined by the authenticating that a portion of account information input by the user and a portion of the account registered information stored in the storage unit match and remaining portions do not match, updating the storage unit with respect to the remaining portions found to be mismatching portions, based on the account information input by the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.