Printing apparatus, printing apparatus control method, and program
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNaoya Kakutani
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Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a receiving unit which receives print data, an operating unit which receives a print instruction from a user, a display unit which displays a password entry screen for receiving a password entry from a user, and a printing unit which receives a print instruction from a user through the operating unit and prints print data without accepting a password through a password entry screen if a password added to the print data is matched with a fixed password and print data to be printed if a print instruction from a user is received through the operating unit, if the password added to the print data is matched with the fixed password, and if the password received through a password entry screen is matched with the password added to the print data.
Claims15
An image processing apparatus which uses an image forming unit configured to execute an image forming process, and an authentication unit configured to authenticate a user, the image processing apparatus comprising:
- a controlling unit having a processor which executes instructions stored in a memory or having circuitry, the controlling unit being configured:
- acquire password-set print data;
- receive a print instruction from a user authenticated by the authentication unit, and cause the image forming unit to perform the image forming process based on the password-set print data, associated with the authenticated user, without an input of a password for performing authentication different from the authenticating the user in accordance with the print instruction.
A method for controlling a computer included in an image processing system as at least a part of the image processing system, the image processing system including an image forming unit configured to execute an image forming process, and an authentication unit configured to authenticate an operator, the method comprising:
- acquiring password-set print data;
- receiving a print instruction from a user authenticated by the authentication unit, and causing the image forming unit to perform the image forming process based on the password-set print data, associated with the authenticated user, without an input of a password for performing authentication different from the authenticating the operator in accordance with the print instruction.
An image processing apparatus comprising:
- an image forming unit configured to execute an image forming process;
- an authentication unit configured to authenticate a user;
- a controlling unit having a processor which executes instructions stored in a memory or having circuitry, the controlling unit being configured to:
- acquire password-set print data;
- in a case where the authentication unit is ON, cause the image forming unit to perform the image forming process based on the password-set print data, associated with the authenticated user, without an input of a password for performing authentication different from the authenticating the user in accordance with a print instruction;
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- in a case where the authentication unit is OFF, cause the image forming unit to perform the image forming process based on the password-set print data with an input of the password for performing authentication different from the authenticating the user in accordance with a print instruction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.