Patent ID: 8432569

Claim:
An image forming system comprising an image forming apparatus, an information processing apparatus capable of being connected to the image forming apparatus, and a printer driver generator that generates a printer driver to set permitted operations of the image forming apparatus and a unique authentication key for the printer driver, and wherein: the information processing apparatus comprises: a controller that installs on the information processing apparatus, the printer driver generated by the printer driver generator; an authentication key memory that records in itself the authentication key generated by the printer driver generator; a job generator that generates a job to give to the image forming apparatus, according to the printer driver currently installed thereon; and a transmitter that transmits to the image forming apparatus, the job generated by the job generator, having the authentication key, and the image forming apparatus comprises: an authentication key memory that records in itself the authentication key generated by the printer driver generator; a receiver that receives the job having the authentication key, from the information processing apparatus; a comparator that compares the authentication key given to the job received therefrom, to the authentication key recorded in the authentication key memory of the image forming apparatus; and a job executor that executes the received job if the authentication keys are identical according to a comparison result drawn by the comparator.