Patent ID: 7224477
Filing Date: 2007-05-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A print system comprising: at least one printer; and at least one client connected to the printer via a network, wherein the client comprises a printing job generator which generates a printing job of confidential printing based on an input instruction from a user; and a printing job transmitter which transmits the printing job to the printer via the network, wherein the printer comprises a printing job receiver which receives the printing job from the client via the network; a storing executor which temporarily stores the received printing job as printing job data in an auxiliary memory device; a reader which reads the printing job data from the auxiliary memory device; a print executor which executes printing operation based on the printing job data read by the reader; a set portion in which whether or not the received printing job is held as printing job data in an auxiliary memory device even after printing of the received printing job is completed is set not for each printing job but comprehensively; a judging portion which judges whether or not the received print job is of the confidential printing; and a selective deleter which deletes the printing job data from the auxiliary memory device after the printing operation is completed if the judging portion judges that the printing job is of the confidential printing, even when the set portion is set so that the printing job is still held as the printing job data in the auxiliary memory device even after printing of the received printing job is completed.