摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus in which an owner can be identified in the unit of a print paper sheet by including a means for coding job information, and by printing the coded image on a corresponding print paper sheet. <P>SOLUTION: When the output of data is requested from a PC connected to a network (Step 1), print data and job information are first received (Step 2). It is decided whether the code of a job is set to be printed (Step 3). When code printing is not set, processing is advanced to Step 7 and only the print data is printed. When code printing is set, the job information is coded (Step 4). Image data of coded data is then created (Step 5), the coded image data is composited with data to be printed (Step 6), and the data is printed out (Step 7). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |