Patent ID: 8629998

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a printer operable to execute a print job according to a request from a user; a security level receiver operable to receive a security level designation for each of one or more pages of print data pertaining to the print job; a presence determiner operable to determine whether the user who requested execution of the print job is in a vicinity of the image forming apparatus; an execution controller operable to stop the execution of the print job, including stopping printing received print data of a print job, after printing of the print job has started if the presence determiner has determined that the user is not in the vicinity of the image forming apparatus; and a prohibiter operable to prohibit, depending on the security level of the page of the print data to be printed, the execution controller from stopping the execution of the print job, wherein the printer executes the print job by printing each page having a higher security level with priority.