Patent ID: 8031349

Claim:
A printing device comprising: a print process configured to cause an electronic document to be printed; an operation panel; and wherein the printing device is configured to detect that a portable media has been inserted into the printing device, wherein the portable media includes a user identification stored thereon by a client device, retrieve the user identification from the portable media, provide the user identification over a network to a security server that is separate from the client device and request a password that corresponds to the user identification, receive, from the security server over the network, the password that corresponds to the user identification, request, from the security server, encrypted print data that corresponds to the user identification, receive the encrypted print data from the security server, and query a user for a password via the operation panel, detect entry of the password via the operation panel, determine whether the password entered via the operation panel of the printing device matches the password received by the printing device over the network from the security server that is separate from the client device, and in response to the printing device determining that the password entered via the operation panel of the printing device matches the password received by the printing device over the network from the security server that is separate from the client device, decrypt the encrypted print data using the password received by the printing device over the network from the security server that is separate from the client device to recover decrypted print data.