Minolta Company, Ltd.

Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Junichi Nishiyama

Toshimi Shinchi

Hajime Takei

Naoya Misawa

A printer as an image forming device establishes the same password for multiple confidential printing jobs received within a specified time period from the same user and sends them back to the source of the transmission. The printer approves the execution of the particular confidential printing job when the entered password matches with the password established for the confidential printing job.

Image forming device, image forming method, and image processing system

A method of processing a printing job data is provided in which the secrecy of a job data required for the confidential printing can be ensured in the display of a status data indicative of a printing state of the job data. The method includes examining whether the confidential printing for a job data to be printed out is requested or not; when the confidential printing is requested, deleting or altering the document name contained in the job data; and releasing the job data from which the document name has been deleted or altered.

Recording medium for recording printing programs and printing system for confidential printing

A data transmission apparatus including a multicasting means for executing multicasting transmission for a mixture of e-mails and facsimiles, a destination setting means for setting destinations of the multicasting transmission, a first adding means for, based on e-mail destinations set by the destination setting means, generating image data representing the e-mail destinations, and adding the image data to an image data to be transmitted as a facsimile by the multicasting transmission, and a second adding means for, based on facsimile destinations set by the destination setting means, generating character string data representing the facsimile destinations and adding the character string data to an e-mail to be transmitted by the multicasting transmission.

Data communication apparatus, data communication system, data communication method, control program, and computer readable storage medium stored with control program

A composite communication apparatus of the present invention is provided with a facsimile transmission unit and an electronic mail transmission unit, when the size of an image data attached to an electronic mail is larger than a predetermined reference value, the image data is transmitted by use of the facsimile transmission unit instead of the electronic mail transmission unit. As the result, the data amount fed on a network is reduced and the efficiency reduction of the network system is prevented.

Composite communication apparatus having facsimile transmission unit and electronic mail transmission unit

An image forming apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving a printing job including image data, a counting unit for counting a number of sheets required by the printing job when an image for one page is formed on a sheet of paper, an image forming unit for forming images for a plurality of pages on a sheet of paper when the number of sheets exceeds a prescribed value, and a tray for receiving a image formed sheet. The image forming apparatus enables outputting an entire image data even when the number of sheets required for printing the entire image data exceeds a capacity of the tray.

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Atsugi, Japan

Junichi Nishiyama