Patent ID: 8011746
Filing Date: 2011-09-06
Classification: B41J,C09D,G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. An image-forming system via which a predetermined printing person causes an image to be formed on a recording medium, the image forming system comprising: a cartridge-installation section in which an ink cartridge, filled with an identifiable ink having a predetermined identifiable attribute is installed; an ink jetting mechanism which jets, on to the recording medium, the identifiable ink supplied from the ink cartridge installed in the cartridge-installation section; a first-information acquiring mechanism which acquires, from the ink cartridge and the identifiable ink, a first information indicating the attribute of the identifiable ink; a second-information acquiring mechanism which acquires, from the printing person, a second information specifying the printing person; a judging mechanism which compares the first acquired by the first-information acquiring mechanism to the second information acquired by the second-information acquiring mechanism, to judge an allowability of printing to be carried out with the identifiable ink; and an inhibiting mechanism which inhibits the ink jetting mechanism from jetting the identifiable ink when the judging mechanism judges not to allow the printing with the identifiable ink.