Image forming device and image forming system
AssigneeKyocera Mita Corporation
InventorsKatsuyuki Teranishi, Hidechika Kumamoto
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Abstract
This image forming device 1 comprises an image processing unit 9, an HDD 23 and an image forming unit. The image processing unit 9 is capable of instructing the output of the image data sent from the PC 43. The HDD 23 is connected to the image processing unit 9 and is capable of storing the image data to be delivered. The image forming unit is capable of receiving the instruction from the image processing unit 9 and delivering onto paper or the like the image data stored in the HDD 23. Then, when the ID information contained in the image data is detected by the image processing unit 9, writing of image data to the HDD 23 is prohibited.
Claims5
An image forming device comprising:
- a control unit that instructs the output of an image data;
- a first storage device being connected to the control unit and that stores the image data;
- an output device that receives a print instruction from the control unit and delivers onto a transfer medium the image data stored in the first storage device;
- an interface being connected to the control unit;
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- a second storage device being removably connected to the interface and that stores the image data to be delivered from the output device,
- the control unit prohibiting writing of the image data to the first storage device when special security information contained in the image data is detected by the control unit, and
- the control unit allowing writing of the image data to the second storage device when the special security information contained in the image data is detected by the control unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.