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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 13, 2016
Konica Minolta, Inc., Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP;
Shohei Iwamoto, Hachioji, JP;
KONICA MINOLTA, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming device comprises: an additional information determining part that determines necessity of additional information required for execution of a print job based on information received from a terminal device; a print job storage that temporarily stores therein the print job received from the terminal device when the additional information determining part determines the additional information is necessary; an additional information requesting part that requests for the additional information to the terminal device when the additional information determining part determines the additional information is necessary; an additional information obtaining part that obtains the additional information from the terminal device; a print setting applying part that applies the additional information to the print job stored in the print job storage; and a printing part that produces the printed output based on the print job to which the additional information is applied by the print setting applying part.