| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a user from being made to wait by other users when he/she goes to an installation place of a printer, in the case of the performance of confidential printing. <P>SOLUTION: This printer 3 has a confidential printing mode for printing stored printing data in accordance with the user's operations using an operation part 9, after the reception and storage of the printing data transmitted from host apparatuses 1 and 2. In this constitution, the printer 3 is equipped with: a means for receiving a request to prohibit the other users from doing the printing by operating the operation part 9 is operated, along with user identification information of a request source; a means for prohibiting the operation of the operation part 9 in accordance with the received request to prohibit the operation; and a means for giving a printing operation right to print the stored printing data by operating the operation part 9, to the user who inputs the user identification information determined to correspond to the user identification information of the request source, only when the input user identification information corresponds to the user identification information of the request source, in the case where the user identification information is input from the operation part 9 in the state of prohibiting the operation of the operation part 9. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO&NCIPI |
