Patent ID: 9557944
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A printing system comprising a host apparatus which transmits to a printing apparatus: a print job and account information including a password, a personal identifier, and an affiliation identifier, which are input by a user to the host apparatus, and the printing apparatus which is connected to the host apparatus, receives the print job and the account information, and performs authenticated printing, wherein the printing apparatus comprises: a storage unit configured to store account information including a password, a personal identifier, and an affiliation identifier for each user input by an administrator of the printing system beforehand; a processor configured to: authenticate the user by comparing the account information transmitted by the host apparatus with the account information in the storage unit; execute printing based on the print job in a first case where it is determined by authentication by the authentication unit that: even though all of the account information transmitted by the host apparatus do not match with all of the account information stored in the storage unit for a first user, (1) the password and the personal identifier transmitted by the host apparatus and the password and the personal identifier stored in the storage unit for the first user match; (2) the affiliation identifier transmitted by the host apparatus and the affiliation identifier stored in the storage unit for the first user do not match; and (3) the affiliation identifier transmitted by the host apparatus has been stored in the storage unit for a second user; and suppress the printing in a second case where it is determined by authentication by the authentication unit that the password and the personal identifier transmitted by the host apparatus and the password and the personal identifier stored in the storage unit for the first user match, and the affiliation identifier transmitted by the host apparatus has not been stored for any user.