Patent ID: 8203738

Claim:
An image forming device terminal for instructing an execution of a printout process on an image forming device capable of executing authentication print printing, which is a printout process of performing user authentication using a predetermined authentication device and determining start of execution of the printout process based on a result of the user authentication; the image forming device terminal comprising: a selection accepting unit that accepts a selection of an image forming device for executing the printout process from a plurality of image forming devices; a determination unit that classifies the selected image forming device as a first type image forming device when the selected image forming device is a default set image forming device and classifies the selected image forming device as a second type image forming device when the selected image forming device is not a default set image forming device; and a generating unit that generates job data instructing the printout process to the selected image forming device as a printout process that is not authentication print printing in a case where the selected image forming device is the first type image forming device, and generates job data instructing the printout process to the selected image forming device as a printout process that is authentication print printing in a case where the selected image forming device is the second type image forming device.