Image forming apparatus and image forming system

摘要

An image forming apparatus which can prohibit any users but a user who has made a deposit from operating the image forming apparatus for a chargeable process. A communication controller of the image forming apparatus obtains pieces of proper information of cell-phones. An ID management section issues IDs for the respective pieces of proper information, and the communication controller sends the IDs to the corresponding cell-phones. At an input section, a user of one of the cell-phones inputs the ID sent thereto. Thereafter, the communication controller receives an access from a cell-phone and receives proper information of the cell-phone. In this moment, it is judged whether the cell-phone which has made an access is identical with the cell-phone of which ID was inputted at the input section. Only when the communication controller identifies the cell-phone, the communication controller permits the image forming apparatus to communicate with the cell-phone.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus which is wirelessly communicable with communication terminals, said image forming apparatus comprising:
a proper information obtaining section for obtaining pieces of proper information of the communication terminals respectively from the communication terminals; an ID issuing section for issuing pieces of identification information for the respective pieces of proper information; a storage section for storing the pieces of proper information and the pieces of identification information with the pieces of proper information related to the respective pieces of identification information; a sending section for sending the pieces of identification information to the corresponding communication terminals; an ID reception section for a user to directly manually input identification information; a receiving section for receiving proper information of a communication terminal operated by the user when receiving an access from the communication terminal operated by the user; a searching section for searching the storage section for a piece of proper information associated with the identification information manually inputted by the user directly into the ID reception section; a first judging section for judging whether the proper information received by the receiving section is identical with the proper information found by the searching section; a communication controlling section for permitting acceptance of a process execution command only from the communication terminal which the first judging section judges that the proper information received by the receiving section is identical with the proper information found by the searching section, and for rejecting acceptance of the process execution command from the other communication terminal which the first judging section judges that the proper information received by the receiving section is not identical with the proper information found by the searching section; and a process executing section for executing a process in accordance with the process execution command accepted by the receiving section, wherein when the process executing section has completed the process, the communication control section cancels the state of the permission of the process execution command for the communication terminal of which proper information was judged by the first judging section to be identical and cancels the state of the rejection of the process execution command for the other communication terminal of which proper information was judged by the first judging section to be identical, such that the image forming apparatus is reset to an initial state.