| 摘要 |
A system and method for ensuring secure transfer of a document from a client of a network to a printer. A printing control system (100) ensures one or more users of a network secure access to a print job designated to one or more users of the network. The printing control system (100) comprises a client station (102') of a first plurality of client stations (102) for designating the print job consisting of a document and a header to the one or more users, a spool (106) connected to the client station (102') for spooling of the document and substituting the document in the print job with a spooled document, a job database (110) connected to the spool (106) for receiving the spooled document and the header from the client station (102'), a printer communication unit of a second plurality of printer communication units receiving user identifying data input by the one or more users to the printer communication unit, a server (136) interconnecting the printer communication unit to the job database (110) for establishing the one or more users in a user table (114) of the job database (110) enabling the one or more users access to the network, for validating the one or more users on the basis of the user identifying data input to the printer communication unit against user information stored in the user table (114), and for ensuring the user identifying data and the user information provide the one or more users access to the spooled document, a printer (116) connected to the printer communication unit for receiving the spooled document from the job database (110) and having a request input for receiving a print request from the one or more users and communicating the print request to the server, and additionally a print engine (142) interconnecting the job database (110) and the printer communication unit for compiling of the spooled document to be communicated to the printer (116) through the printer communication unit. <IMAGE> |
