Patent ID: 8115951

Claim:
A printing device comprising: a print process configured to process print jobs received by the printing device over a network and cause printed versions of electronic documents contained in the print jobs to be generated at the printing device; an interface for communicatively coupling the printing device to an external input device; and a locked print process configured to: examine a plurality of print jobs received by the printing device over the network to determine whether locked printing has been specified for any of the plurality of print jobs, if locked printing has been specified for one or more print jobs from the plurality of print jobs, then cause the one or more print jobs to be stored at the printing device instead of being printed, verify user identification data received from the external input device via the interface, and if the user identification data is successfully verified, then determine whether any of the one or more print jobs stored at the printing device satisfy date criteria data received by the printing device from the external input device via the interface and if so, then cause the print jobs stored at the printing device that satisfy the date criteria data to be printed at the printing device.