Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and method of controlling image forming apparatus
AssigneeToshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorSatoshi YURUZUME
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Abstract
According to one or more embodiments, an image forming apparatus comprises a communication interface, an image forming unit, and a processor. The communication interface communicates with a plurality of information processing apparatuses via a network and receives print jobs from the information processing apparatuses. The image forming unit executes printing according to a first print job. The processor determines a presence of a user associated with a second print job near the image forming apparatus, and then determines, based on the presence of the user, whether to execute the first print job or to transmit or forward the first print job to another image forming apparatus.
Claims14
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a communication interface configured to communicate with another image forming apparatus and a plurality of information processing apparatuses and;
- an image forming unit configured to execute printing according to a first print job received via the communication interface;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- determine a presence of a user associated with a second print job received via the communication interface before the first print job, the second print job having been received before the first print job but not yet executed by the image forming unit, and
- based on the presence of the user, select between executing the first print job or transmitting the first print job to the other image forming apparatus.
An image forming system, comprising:
- a plurality of image forming apparatuses, each configured to execute printing based on print jobs from a plurality of information processing apparatuses, wherein
- a first image forming apparatus of the plurality of image forming apparatuses comprises:
- a communication interface configured to communicate with the plurality of image forming apparatuses and the plurality of information processing apparatuses;
- an image forming unit configured to execute printing according to a first print job received via the communication interface;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- detect a presence of a user in the vicinity of the first image forming apparatus;
- if the presence of the user is detected, determine if the user is associated with a second print job received via the communication interface before the first print job;
- and
- select whether to execute the first print job received via the communication interface or to transmit the first print job to a second image forming apparatus of the plurality of image forming apparatuses based on whether or not the detected user is associated with the second print job.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.