Patent ID: 8125657
Filing Date: 2012-02-28
Classification: G03G,G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus including an operation unit, the printing apparatus comprising: a processor; an identification unit, implemented by the processor, that identifies a group to which a user who has issued a printing request belongs from a plurality of groups; a setting unit, implemented by the processor, that sets selectable printing purposes associated with the identified group; a selection unit, implemented by the processor, that controls to select one of the printing purposes set by the setting unit and displayed on the operation unit; an acquisition unit, implemented by the processor, that acquires printing format restriction information corresponding to the printing purpose selected by the selection unit from a storage device of the printing apparatus, wherein an available number of times is set to the printing format restriction information corresponding to the printing purpose; an execution-instructing unit, implemented by the processor, that issues an instruction for execution of printing processing within a range of the printing format restriction information acquired by the acquisition unit; a reception unit, implemented by the processor, that receives a print job from an information processing apparatus; and a restricting unit, implemented by the processor, that restricts execution of the print job in accordance with the printing format restriction information when the printing format restriction information is added to the print job received by the reception unit, wherein, when the identification unit identifies that the user who has issued the printing request belongs to more than one of the plurality of groups, the setting unit sets a plurality of printing purposes in accordance with the logical OR of selectable printing purposes associated with the more than one of the plurality of groups, wherein the restricting unit includes a determination unit that determines whether the number of pages of the print job output thus far exceeds the maximum number of output pages set in the printing format restriction information, and wherein when the determination unit determines that the number of pages of the print job output thus far does not exceed the maximum number of output pages, the execution of the print job is continued, and when the determination unit determines that the number of pages of the print job output thus far exceeds the maximum number of output pages, the execution of the print job is terminated before completion.