Patent ID: 9286011
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: B41J,G06F,H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image formation device including a document box configured to store a piece of document data downloaded from an external server on the Internet, the image formation device comprising: an operating section configured to receive a select operation for selecting the piece of document data in the document box and a print instruction operation for instructing to print the selected piece of document data; a version check control section configured to, when the operating section receives the select operation, determine whether or not the selected piece of document data has been updated on the external server; a document data update control section configured to, when the version check control section determines that the selected piece of document data has been updated on the external server, download the updated piece of document data from the external server and update the piece of document data in the document box; a print control section configured to, when the operating section receives the print instruction operation, cause printing based on the piece of document data already stored in the document box to be performed if the selected piece of document data has not been updated on the external server or cause printing based on the piece of document data updated in the document box by the document data update control section to be performed if the selected piece of document data has been updated on the external server; an intra-other device document data check control section configured to determine whether or not the piece of document data identical in download source and document data name to the piece of document data downloaded by the document data update control section is stored in the document box of any other image formation device connected over a network to the image formation device; and a communication control section configured to transmit the piece of document data downloaded by the document data update control section to the other image formation device in which the piece of document data identical in download source and document data name to the downloaded piece of document data is stored in the document box.