SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND METHOD THEREFOR

摘要

An image forming apparatus receives a job list of a user using the image forming apparatus from a document management server, and, in response to the user instruction, receives from the document management server print data corresponding to a job selected from the job list, and prints the received print data. Further, in response to the user instruction, the image forming apparatus requests the document management server to enable a specified other user to print a job selected from the job list. According to the user instruction, the document management server adds data corresponding to the job selected from the job list of the user to the job list of the specified other user.

主权项

1. A system including a server and an image forming apparatus, wherein the server comprises:
a storage unit configured to, for each user, store data corresponding to a document printable by the user in a storage device; a provision unit configured to, according to an instruction from a user, provide a list of the data corresponding to a document printable by the user stored in the storage unit; an addition unit configured to add data selected from the list provided by the provision unit to the storage device as data corresponding to a document printable by another user; and a transmission unit configured to, if the list has been provided to the image forming apparatus by the provision unit, transmit to the image forming apparatus print data corresponding to the data selected from the list in response to a request from the image forming apparatus, and wherein the image forming apparatus comprises:
a first receiving unit configured to issue a request to the server and then to receive from the server a list of data corresponding to a document printable by a user using the image forming apparatus;a second receiving unit configured to issue a request to the server and then to receive from the server print data corresponding to data selected from the list received by the first receiving unit; anda printing unit configured to print the print data received by the second receiving unit.