Patent ID: 9542139
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A network printing system comprising: a plurality of user devices; a plurality of printing devices; a print server, comprising plurality of print queues including a secure print queue and an insecure print queue, the insecure print queue being arranged to store print jobs received from the user devices and to send stored print jobs to the printing devices; and a logon server arranged to store logon details for a plurality of users of the user devices and printer information defining a default printer for each of the plurality of users of the user devices, wherein the print server is further arranged to select a printing device to which to send a print job stored in the insecure print queue based on the printer information stored in the logon server for the user of the user device from which the print job originated and to transfer a print job stored in the insecure print queue to the secure print queue based on properties of the print job, and further arranged to transfer print jobs from any one of said plurality of print queues to the printing device selected for that job based on the printer information stored in the logon server.