Image forming apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
AssigneeKonica Minolta, Inc.
InventorTakatsugu KUNO
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus that performs user authentication based on authentication information added to a print job, and permits printing based on the print job when the user authentication is successful. The image forming apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor acquires, when the authentication information is not added to a print job, device information indicating a transmission source of the print job, identifies a transmission user of the print job based on the device information, saves the print job as a pending job for the transmission user, releases a pending state of the pending job in a case where the user authentication of the transmission user is successful, and starts a print output of the print job.
Claims17
An image forming apparatus that performs user authentication based on authentication information added to a print job, and permits printing based on the print job when the user authentication is successful, the image forming apparatus comprising a hardware processor that:
- acquires, when the authentication information is not added to a print job, device information indicating a transmission source of the print job;
- identifies a transmission user of the print job based on the device information;
- saves the print job as a pending job for the transmission user;
- releases a pending state of the pending job in a case where the user authentication of the transmission user is successful;
- and
- starts a print output of the print job.
A control method for an image forming apparatus that performs user authentication based on authentication information added to a print job and permits printout based on the print job when the user authentication is successful, the control method comprising:
- acquiring device information indicating a transmission source of the print job when the authentication information is not added to the print job;
- identifying a transmission user of the print job based on the device information;
- saving the print job as a pending job for the transmission user;
- releasing a pending state of the pending job in a case where the user authentication of the transmission user is successful;
- and
- starting a print output of the print job.
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program to be executed in a hardware processor of an image forming apparatus that performs user authentication based on authentication information added to a print job and permits printout based on the print job when the user authentication is successful, wherein the program causes the hardware processor to perform:
- acquiring device information indicating a transmission source of the print job when the authentication information is not added to the print job;
- identifying a transmission user of the print job based on the device information;
- saving the print job as a pending job for the transmission user;
- releasing a pending state of the pending job in a case where the user authentication of the transmission user is successful;
- and
- starting a print output of the print job.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.