Patent ID: 7715030

Claim:
A printing apparatus in which print restrictions concerning print jobs are set for each user requesting the print jobs, said printing apparatus being communicably connected to a manager terminal used by a manager authorized to set the print restrictions, the printing apparatus comprising: (i) a print restrictions management information acquiring section for acquiring print restrictions management information indicative of correspondences between the print restrictions assigned to a user and information concerning print jobs of the user; (ii) a settings change predicting section for predicting at regular time intervals whether changing the print restrictions set to the user is required by acquiring, to confirm a printing amount required in a future print job, a future print job schedule of the user from the print restrictions management information acquired by the print restrictions management information acquiring section; and (iii) a change authorization confirming section for transmitting change authorization confirming information to the manager terminal if the settings change predicting section has predicted that changing the print restrictions is required, the change authorization confirming information being indicative of inquiry about whether the manager terminal authorizes changing the print restrictions.