Patent ID: 8493577
Filing Date: 2013-07-23
Classification: G03G,G06F,H04N,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A control device for controlling an image forming apparatus having operating modes of a standby mode ready for printing and a sleep mode unready for printing and consuming less power than in said standby mode, the control device comprising: a setting portion to accept setting for printing by a user; a generating portion to generate a print job based on said accepted setting; a transmitting portion to transmit said generated print job to said image forming apparatus; a confidential printing setting portion included in said setting portion, to set for confidential printing where printing is performed only after reception of a prescribed instruction; and a control portion to determine that the user sets the confidential printing by the confidential printing setting portion, and to inquire of said user whether to switch the operating mode of said image forming apparatus to said standby mode in response to the determination that the user has set the confidential printing by the confidential printing setting portion, to control to maintain the operating mode of said image forming apparatus in said sleep mode on the condition that an instruction not to switch the operating mode to standby mode is accepted in response to said inquiry, and to control to switch the operating mode of said image forming apparatus to said standby mode on the condition that an instruction to switch the operating mode to said standby mode is accepted in response to said inquiry.