PRINTED MATTER DELIVERY SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINTED MATTER DELIVERY APPARATUS, AND PRINTED MATTER DELIVERY METHOD

• Main Authors: FUNAYAMA YUSUKE, EBARA YASUHISA, SERIZAWA KEIICHI, MAEDA DAISUKE, TAKABAYASHI KAZUHIRO, SAKAUCHI KAZUNORI, SHOJI KATSUNORI, SHIGETA SEIICHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 29.09.2016
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printed matter delivery system configured to improve security of a printed matter.SOLUTION: A printed matter delivery system includes: an image forming apparatus 100; a printed matter delivery apparatus 300 for delivering a printed matter with an image formed by the image forming apparatus; and a management apparatus 500 for generating and managing a print job and a delivery job. The management apparatus includes: a print management section 512 for managing a print job to be executed; a delivery management section 514 for managing a delivery job to be executed by the printed matter delivery apparatus; and a delivery authentication processing section 516 which authenticates authentication information of the delivery job acquired by the image forming apparatus from the printed matter delivery apparatus and authentication information of the print job, while the printed matter delivery apparatus and the image forming apparatus are connected to each other. The image forming apparatus includes a print control section 132 for controlling the authenticated print job to be printed on a recording medium and controlling a printed matter to be output to the printed matter delivery apparatus. The printed matter delivery apparatus includes a receipt confirmation section 325 which acquires receipt information input in a delivery destination of the printed matter.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 11 【課題】印刷物のセキュリティを向上する印刷物配送システムを提供する。【解決手段】印刷物配送システムは、画像形成装置１００と、画像形成装置によって画像が形成された印刷物を配送する印刷物配送装置３００と、印刷ジョブ及び配送ジョブを生成して管理する管理装置５００と、を含む。管理装置は、実行する印刷ジョブを管理する印刷管理部５１２と、印刷物配送装置により実行される配送ジョブを管理する配送管理部５１４と、印刷物配送装置と画像形成装置とが接続した状態で、画像形成装置が印刷物配送装置から取得する配送ジョブの認証情報と、印刷ジョブの認証情報との認証を行う配送認証処理部５１６と、を有する。画像形成装置は、認証された印刷ジョブの記録媒体への印刷を実行させ、印刷物を印刷物配送装置に出力させる印刷制御部１３２を有する。印刷物配送装置は、印刷物の配送先で入力される受領情報を取得する受領確認部３２５を有する。【選択図】図１１