Patent ID: 7817291
Filing Date: 2010-10-19
Classification: G03G,G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming device to which one or a plurality of host terminals are connected, comprising: an identification data input unit receiving a first user-identification data which identifies a user of the image forming device and is inputted by the user; a data comparison unit detecting whether the first user-identification data received by the identification data input unit matches with a second user-identification data which is received from a host terminal before or after an image output request is received from the host terminal or concurrently with receiving of the image output request; a management information transmitting unit transmiting an image output enabled state notice to the host terminal in response to the image output request when it is detected by the data comparison unit that the first user-identification data matches with the second user-identification data; and an image output unit receiving image data which is transmitted by the host terminal in response to the image output enabled state notice from the management information transmitting unit, and outputting an image based on the received image data.