Patent ID: 9285753
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: G03G

Claim Text:
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a maintenance staff information store part that stores maintenance staff identification information; a maintenance staff authentication part that determines an authentication success when identification information, which is input from an operation panel, is identical to the maintenance staff identification information; a maintenance history store part that, when a replacement of a consumable item is performed at every time, stores the maintenance staff identification information as well as information of the consumable item that was used before the replacement, and the stored maintenance staff indication information is related to the information of the consumable item; an output part that outputs the maintenance staff identification information that was authenticated at the time of the replacement of the consumable item used before the replacement as well as the information of the consumable item that is stored in the maintenance history store part, the consumable item being used before the replacement; and a first operation limitation part that limits executing a print process, wherein the first operation limitation part checks a relation between the information of each consumable item and the maintenance staff indication information in the maintenance history store part when a print job is received, and limits executing the print process when the first operation limitation part decided there is no relation between the information of one of the consumable items and the maintenance staff indication information.