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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHideo Asahara
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An electronic apparatus that is capable of securely preventing a user who has worked in a dedicated mode using a storage device such as a removable medium from forgetting to remove the storage device. The electronic apparatus is operated in a normal mode or a dedicated mode in which a particular process including accessing an available medium is performed. When the dedicated mode is switched to the normal mode by the mode switching module, a removable medium detecting module detects whether an available storage device is connected to a removable media drive, and if an available storage device is detected by the removable medium detecting module, the switching to the normal mode is inhibited by mode switching inhibiting module.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
A control method for controlling an image forming apparatus comprising interface means for enabling access to a removable storage device, said image forming apparatus being capable of executing, separately from a normal mode, a service mode, wherein the normal mode is a mode in which a general user performs an image processing with the image forming a apparatus using image data or document data stored in another storage device different from the removable storage device, and the service mode is a mode in which a service person performs maintenance of the image forming apparatus using data stored in the removable storage device, the method comprising:
A computer-readable medium storing a computer program for performing a control method for controlling an image forming apparatus comprising interface means for enabling access to a removable storage device, said image forming apparatus being capable of executing, separately from a normal mode, a service mode, wherein the normal mode is a mode in which a general user performs an image processing with the image forming apparatus using image data or document data stored in another storage device different from the removable storage device, and the service mode is a mode in which a service person performs maintenance of the image forming apparatus using data stored in the removable storage device, the control method comprising:
An image forming apparatus comprising:
A control method for controlling an image forming apparatus comprising interface means for enabling access to a removable storage device, said image forming apparatus being capable of executing, separately from a normal mode, a specific mode, wherein the normal mode is a mode in which a general user performs an image processing with the image forming apparatus using image data or document data stored in another storage device different from the removable storage device, and the specific mode is a mode in which a service person or an administrator performs a particular process of the image forming apparatus using data stored in the removable storage device, the method comprising:
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