Patent ID: 7249900

Claim:
A printing device comprising: a user interface configured to display information and accept user input; a locked print process configured to: examine print data received by the printing device to determine whether password data must be verified at the printing device before a printed version of an electronic document reflected in the print data can be generated, if password data must be verified at the printing device before a printed version of an electronic document reflected in the print data can be generated, then cause the print data to be stored on the printing device, verify password data entered via the user interface and if the password data is successfully verified, then allow the printed version of the electronic document reflected in the print data to be generated; and a Web server configured to: generate one or more Web pages and cause the one or more Web pages to be provided to a client device, wherein processing of the one or more Web pages at the client device allows a user to enter configuration data that defines one or more functions performed by the locked print process, and receive the configuration data from the client device.