Patent ID: 8289543
Filing Date: 2012-10-16
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an image storing unit that stores therein an input image and an image identification for identifying the image, in association with each other; an identification storing unit that stores therein identification information in which a unit identification for identifying a print unit formed with at least one image, the image identification of the image included in the print unit, a medium identification for identifying a recording medium on which the image is printed, a print condition for the print unit, and user identification that includes a print user identification and a permitted-user identification, which corresponds to a user permitted by the print user to perform a function associated with the image, are associated with each other, the print user identification and the permitted-user identification corresponding to different users; a scanner unit that reads a code image in which the medium identification is coded from the recording medium; a detecting unit that detects the medium identification from the code image read by the scanner unit; an identification obtaining unit that obtains the image identification of all images included in the print unit that is identified by the unit identification corresponding to the medium identification detected by the detecting unit and the print condition corresponding to the medium identification, from the identification storing unit; an image obtaining unit that obtains all images corresponding to the image identification obtained by the identification obtaining unit from the image storing unit; and a printing unit that prints the image obtained by the image obtaining unit under the print condition obtained by the identification obtaining unit.