Printer

• US 7,151,613 B1
• Filed: 02/18/2000
• Issued: 12/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd. (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Minolta Co., Ltd. (Konica Minolta Inc.)
• Inventors: Ito, Atsushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Douglas Q.
• Application Number:
  US09/506,453
• Time in Patent Office: 2,496 Days
• Field of Search: 358/1.15, 358/1.16, 358/1.18, 358/1.4, 358/402, 358/401, 358/403, 355/202, 355/208, 355/209, 355/309, 271/288, 271/298, 270/52.01
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1222 Increasing security of the print job
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1238 Secure printing, e.g. user identification, user rights for device usage, unallowed content, blanking portions or fields of a page, releasing held jobs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1285 Remote printer device, e.g. being remote from client or server
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/00 Arrangements for producing a permanent visual presentation of the output data , e.g. computer output printersprinting or plotting combined with another operation, e.g. with conveying, G06K17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1803 Receiving particular commands
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 15/1818 Adaptations for accepting data from more than one source managing interfaces G06K15/4045

Abstract

A printer (100) for printing based on a print job signal sent from a data processing device (200) registers print job signal sending sources and a message corresponding to each sending source in memory (111, 112). A controller (113) detects whether the sending source of a received print job signal is registered in memory. If the sending source is registered, a messaging unit (110, 111) outputs a corresponding message. Sending sources that are permitted to print can also be registered in memory (111, 112). In this case, the controller (113) detects whether the sending source of a received print job signal is registered in memory, and instructs the printer (110) to print only when the sending source is registered as permitted to print.

Claims

1. A printer comprising:

a receiving unit for receiving a print job to which information of a sending source is added;

a printing unit for printing according to said print job received by the receiving unit;

a memory for storing the sending source of a print job sent from a data processing device, and a message corresponding to the sending source;

a controller for detecting a sending source corresponding to an output destination based on the information of the print job sent from the data processing device, and detecting whether the sending source has been registered in the memory; and

a messaging unit for outputting the message corresponding to the sending source when the controller detects that the sending source has been stored.

2. A printer according claim 1, further comprising a plurality of output bins assigned to a plurality of users, wherein:

said memory registers for each user a sending source and message corresponding to said sending source;

said printing unit outputs a print-out to an output bin assigned to a user indicated by output destination information for a received print job; and

said controller detects whether the sending source of the received print job has been registered in the memory as a sending source for the user indicated by the output destination information of the received print job.

11. The printer according to claim 1, wherein said message unit comprises a display panel provided on the printer to cause the display panel to display the message.

3. A printing system comprising:

a plurality of data processing devices;

a printer for printing based on a print job sent from a data processing device, said print job containing information indicative of a sending source and output destination;

memory for registering the sending source contained in the print job, and a message corresponding to said sending source;

a controller for detecting the source corresponding to the output destination based on the print job sent from the data processing device, and detecting whether said sending source has been registered source memory; and

a messaging unit outputting the message corresponding to the sending source when the sending source has been registered.

4. A printing system according to claim 3, wherein said memory is disposed in said printer.

5. A printing system according to claim 3, wherein said memory is disposed in said data processing device.

6. A printing system as described in claim 3, wherein said controller is disposed in said printer.

7. A printing system according to claim 3, wherein said controller is disposed in said data processing device.

8. A printing system according to claim 3, wherein said messaging unit is disposed in said printer.

9. A printing system according to claim 3, wherein said messaging unit is disposed in said data processing device.

10. A printing system according to claim 3, wherein said printer further comprises a plurality of output bins assigned to a plurality of users, wherein:

said memory registers for each user the sending source and message corresponding to said sending source have been registered on the memory for each user;

said printing unit outputs a print-out to an output bin assigned to a user indicated by output destination information for a received print job; and

said controller detects whether the sending source of the received print job has been registered in the memory as a sending source for the user indicated by the output destination information of the received print job.