Patent ID: 9007619
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a job receiver; a printing unit; a command receiver; a processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the printing apparatus to: analyze a print job received by the job receiver; cause the printing unit to print an image based on an analyzed print job that is received by the job receiver and whose analysis is finished; determine whether the printing apparatus is in a secure mode in which the printing unit prints the image after successful user certification when the command receiver receives a cancel command for cancelling printing of the print job; and perform a secure cancellation process when the command receiver receives the cancel command and the printing apparatus is in the secure mode, the secure cancellation process including: perform a non-secure cancellation process when the command receiver receives the cancel command and the printing apparatus is not in the secure mode, the non-secure cancellation process including cancelling the printing of the print job that is received by the job receiver.