Patent ID: 8078959

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: a job-status report generating section to generate an image-attached job-status report, which indicates a current processing status of a job and which has an image attached thereto, wherein the attached image includes image information regarding the job, and wherein the image-attached job status report contains information identifying an authorized user; a storage section to store the image-attached job-status report generated by the job-status report generating section; an instruction-accepting section to accept an output instruction for implementing an operation for outputting the image-attached job-status report stored in the storage section, only if the output instruction is inputted via the instruction-accepting section by the authorized user identified in the image-attached job-status report; and an outputting section to print the image-attached job-status report onto a paper sheet and to output the paper sheet on which the image-attached job status report is printed, in response to the output instruction accepted by the instruction-accepting section from the authorized user identified in the image-attached job-status report; wherein, with respect to a plurality of jobs inputted by a plurality of authorized users, the job-status report generating section generates respective image-attached job-status reports for every one of the plurality of jobs, and each of the image-attached job-status reports contains information identifying a respective authorized user who is authorized with respect to the job whose status is indicated by the image-attached job status report, such that each of the image-attached job status reports can only be outputted in response to an output instruction accepted by the instruction-accepting section from the respective authorized user identified in the image-attached job-status report.