Patent ID: 7548329

Claim:
An image formation apparatus, comprising: an input unit adapted to input authentication information for specifying a user; an authentication unit adapted to authenticate whether or not the specified user is a proper user whose use request of said image formation apparatus is approved, based on the authentication information input by said input unit; a register adapted to register a security setting with respect to each user authenticated by said authentication unit; a judgment unit adapted to judge whether or not the security setting corresponding to the user authenticated by said authentication unit has been registered by said register; and a controller adapted to control to process the job in one of a first mode of storing a job concerning image formation in a nonvolatile memory and deleting the job stored in the nonvolatile memory after performing an image formation process to the job stored in the nonvolatile memory, or a second mode of performing the image formation process without storing the job in the nonvolatile memory, in a case where said judgment unit judges that the security setting corresponding to the user authenticated by said authentication unit is registered.