Patent ID: 7808664

Claim:
A printing device comprising: an operation panel; a print process configured to process print data and cause a printed version of an electronic document to be generated; and wherein the printing device is configured to: detect that a portable media has been inserted into the printing device, retrieve, from the portable media, encrypted print data and an encrypted password, decrypt the encrypted password retrieved from the portable media to recover a password, recover the print data by decrypting the encrypted print data using the password recovered from the encrypted password retrieved from the portable media, query a user, via the operation panel, for a password, detect entry of the password via the operation panel, determine whether the password entered via the operation panel matches the password recovered from the encrypted password retrieved from the portable media, if the password entered via the operation panel matches the password recovered from the encrypted password retrieved from the portable media, then present to the user, via the operation panel, data that specifies one or more electronic documents that the user is authorized to access, including one or more electronic documents reflected in the print data, and present to the user, via the operation panel, data that indicates one or more operations that the user may perform on the one or more electronic documents.