Patent ID: 9201615
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming device in which image data stored in a portable external storage device can be read and an image formed on the basis of the image data can be printed on a paper sheet, the image forming device comprising a connection unit connectable to the portable external storage device, the portable external storage device stores each of the image data in association with specifying information and whether or not a security setting is present, the specifying information specifying a pre-designated image forming device, the security setting being a setting that causes display of a thumbnail in a state in which security of the contents of the image is ensured; a read unit that reads each of the image data from the portable external storage device connected to the connection unit; a determination unit that: a display unit; a display control unit that: an operation unit; an acceptance unit that accepts, in response to the operation unit being operated, a printing command for the image specified by the thumbnail displayed on the display unit; and an image forming unit that (a) executes a printing command and prints the image on the sheet when the printing command accepted by the acceptance unit is the printing command of the image specified by the thumbnail displayed on the display unit in a state in which security of the contents of the image is not ensured, and (b) does not execute the printing command when the printing command accepted by the acceptance unit is the printing command of the image specified by the thumbnail displayed on the display unit in a state in which security of the contents of the image is ensured.