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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2012
Riso Kagaku Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Daisuke Orikasa, Ibaraki-ken, JP;
Riso Kagaku Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming device includes a non-volatile print job storage unit configured to store a print job received from an outside of the image forming device, a non-volatile mapping table storage unit configured to store a mapping table associating a watermark with an overwrite erase pattern predetermined depending on confidentiality indicated by the watermark, a judgment unit configured to judge whether or not the watermark is included in the print job, an extractor configured to extract the overwrite erase pattern corresponding to the watermark included in the print job from the mapping table upon judgment by the judgment unit that the watermark is included, and an erase unit configured to perform an overwrite erase process on the print job stored in the print job storage unit on the basis of the overwrite erase pattern extracted by the extractor.