Printing system and method for obtaining a desired or an alternative pull-printing result

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8994972-B2
Application number	US-201313927511-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 26, 2013
Priority date	Jun 27, 2012
Publication date	Mar 31, 2015
Grant date	Mar 31, 2015

Abstract

A printing system includes an image forming apparatus, a management server, and a print data transmission apparatus, each of which are coupled one another via a network. The print transmission apparatus transmits print data to the management server in association with a user. The image forming apparatus, including apparatus-supported setting data, (i) causes the management server to authenticate the user, and (ii) prints the print data. The management server (i) manages the print data transmitted from the print data transmission apparatus, (ii) performs authentication of the user, and changes the print data associated with the user to supported print data corresponding to the apparatus-supported setting data, and (iii) transmits the supported print data to the image forming apparatus, if the authentication of the user is successful.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A printing system comprising:
an image forming apparatus coupled to a network;
a management server coupled to the network; and
a print data transmission apparatus coupled to the network,
wherein the print data transmission apparatus includes:
a first print data transmission unit configured to transmit print data associated with a user to the management server, and
wherein the image forming apparatus includes:
an authentication request unit config…

Assignees

• Kyocera Document Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Matsumae Keisaku
• Yoshida Daisuke
• Nakatani Ryusuke

Classifications

• G06F3/1238 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1267

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1222

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1288

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/1232

  Physics · mapped topic