Patent ID: 8422063
Filing Date: 2013-04-16
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus that associates user identification information with printing jobs and carries out the printing jobs that have been previously stored in a server or a storing part, comprising: a specifying information obtaining part that obtains specifying information that specifies the user identification information when a portable recording medium that stores the specifying information is set; an authentication control part that requests an authentication part that authenticates a user by using the specifying information; a log in permitting part that permits logging in of the user when the user has been authenticated; a job list obtaining part that obtains a job list of the printing jobs that have been associated with the user identification information from the server or the storing part when the user has been authenticated; a job displaying part that displays the job list on a display part; a selection receiving part that receives a selection of one or more of the printing jobs from the job list; a printing control part that causes printing data of the one or more printing jobs to be printed; and a printing stop requesting part that requests the printing control part to stop the printing when the specifying information obtaining part has detected that the portable recording medium is unset.