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Image forming device capable of acquiring data from web server

  • US 20030164987A1
  • Filed: 02/21/2003
  • Published: 09/04/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image forming device comprising:

  • an image forming unit that forms images on a recording medium;

    a communicating unit that performs bi-directional communications with a web server provided on a wide area network;

    a data acquiring unit that acquires web data from a web server corresponding to a specified address via the communicating unit;

    a control unit that controls the image forming unit to form images based on the web data acquired by the data acquiring unit;

    an identifying unit that identifies a type of the web data; and

    a determining unit that determines whether or not to form images based on the web data based on the type of the web data, wherein the control unit prohibits the image forming unit from forming images based on the web data when the determining unit determines that images should not be formed based on the web data.

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