Image formation apparatus capable of preventing access to improper USB memory, and control method for image formation apparatus
AssigneeKonica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.
InventorHiroyasu Ito
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Abstract
Determination is made whether acceptance of a job on a USB memory is permitted or not. When in a USB memory job acceptance permitted state, a USB memory job selection display process is executed. When in a USB memory job acceptance prohibited state, a USB memory plural load prohibition display process is executed. When in a USB memory job acceptance prohibited state, the relevant display screen is continuously provided. Therefore, the user is provided with the relevant display screen to be prompted confirmation of the loading of a USB memory.
Claims15
An image formation apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of connectors allowing loading of detachable storage devices,
- a reader for reading out electronic data stored in detachable storage devices,
- a detector for detecting connection status between a connector and a detachable storage device,
- a printer printing out said electronic data read out by said reader, and
- wherein operation of said reader to read out electronic data from any one of said connected detachable storage devices is not permitted to begin when said detector detects a plurality of detachable storage devices connected to said plurality of connectors, and
- printing out of said electronic data read out by said reader is prohibited when connection of a plurality of detachable storage devices at said plurality of connectors is detected.
An image formation apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of connectors allowing loading of detachable storage devices,
- a writer writing electronic data into a detachable storage device when the detachable storage device is connected at said connector,
- a detector detecting connection status between a connector and a detachable storage device and,
- a printer printing out said electronic data,
- wherein a writing operation of said electronic data to any one of said detachable storage devices is not permitted to begin when said detector detects a connection of a plurality of detachable storage devices at said plurality of connectors, and
- printing out of said electronic data is prohibited when connection of a plurality of detachable storage devices at said plurality of connectors is detected.
A control method for an image formation apparatus including a plurality of connectors allowing loading of detachable storage devices and a reader for reading out electronic data stored in detachable storage devices, said method comprising the steps of:
- detecting connection status between a connector and a detachable storage device,
- prohibiting said reader from initiating a reading process of reading out electronic data stored in a detachable storage device when connection of a plurality of detachable storage devices at said plurality of connectors is detected at said detecting step, and
- prohibiting printing of said electronic data read out by said reader when, subsequent to said reading out of said electronic data by said reader, connection of a plurality of detachable storage devices at said plurality of connectors is detected.
A control method for an image formation apparatus including a plurality of connectors allowing loading of detachable storage devices and a writer writing electronic data into a detachable storage device when a detachable storage device is connected at said connector, said method comprising the steps of:
- detecting connection status between a connector and a detachable storage device;
- prohibiting said writer from initiating writing of electronic data to a detachable storage device when connection of a plurality of detachable storage devices at said plurality of connectors is detected at said detecting step, and
- prohibiting printing of said electronic data when connection of a plurality of detachable storage devices at said plurality of connectors is detected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.