Providing printed confidential documents
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsShinoj BHASKARAN, Pooja .
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Abstract
Examples of providing printed confidential documents are described herein. In an example, a printing system includes at least two protected trays to store printed confidential documents. The at least two protected trays may be coupled to each other to enable transfer of the printed confidential documents between the at least two protected trays. Further, an output tray may be coupled to at least one of the at least two protected trays to provide the printed confidential documents for collection. Furthermore, on receiving an authentication input, the printed confidential documents may be transferred from one of the at least two protected trays to the output tray.
Claims15
A printing system comprising:
- a processor;
- at least two protected trays to store printed confidential documents, the at least two protected trays coupled to each other to enable transfer of the printed confidential documents between the at least two protected trays;
- an output tray coupled to at least one of the at least two protected trays to provide the printed confidential documents for collection;
- and
- a document manager coupled to the processor to receive an authentication input to transfer the printed confidential documents from one of the at least two protected trays to the output tray.
A method for providing printed confidential documents of a print job, the method comprising:
- on receiving an authentication input for the print job, identifying a protected tray storing the printed confidential documents of an authenticated print job, the protected tray identified from among two protected trays coupled to each other for transfer of documents from one protected tray to other protected tray;
- and
- ejecting the printed confidential documents of the authenticated print job from the identified protected tray to an output tray for collection.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having a set of computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause a processor to:
- identify, from among at least two coupled protected trays, a protected tray storing printed confidential documents of an authenticated print job, wherein the protected tray is identified using print job data including information pertaining to each print job in each of the at least two coupled protected trays;
- and
- transfer the printed confidential documents from the identified protected tray to an output tray for collection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.