PRINT CONTROLLER, CONTROL METHOD FOR PRINT CONTROLLER, AND PROGRAM

• Main Authors: TADACHI KAZUKI, OKAMOTO TAKESHI, MIYAMOTO HIROFUMI, OKADA HIROSHI, TAKEMAE KAORU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 20.06.2019
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

To provide a print controller capable of suppressing information leakage caused by execution of a print job in a state that a user is not present in front of a printing device.SOLUTION: There is provided a print controller connected to a terminal and a printing device, which comprises: a reception unit for receiving a print destination designation job that is a print job in which a printing device to be the print destination is designated, from the terminal; and a control unit for processing the print job. The control unit determines whether or not the print destination designation job has confidentiality, and when it is determined that the print destination designation job does not have confidentiality, transmits print data based on the print destination designation job to a designated printing device that is a printing device designated as the print destination in the print destination designation job, and when it is determined that the print destination designation job has confidentiality, receives authentication information input to the printing device, from a printing device, performs an authentication process based on the authentication information, and transmits, in accordance with the result of the authentication process, print data to an authenticated printing device that is the printing device of a transmission source of the authentication information.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 10 【課題】ユーザーが印刷装置の目前にいない状態で印刷ジョブの印刷が行われることによる情報漏洩を抑制することができる印刷制御装置を提供する。【解決手段】端末および印刷装置と接続する印刷制御装置であって、端末から、印刷先となる印刷装置が指定された印刷ジョブである印刷先指定ジョブを受信する受信部と、印刷ジョブを処理する制御部とを備え、制御部は、印刷先指定ジョブが機密性を有するか否かを判断し、印刷先指定ジョブが機密性を有しないと判断した場合に、印刷先指定ジョブに基づく印刷データを、印刷先指定ジョブにおいて印刷先として指定された印刷装置である指定印刷装置に送信し、印刷先指定ジョブが機密性を有すると判断した場合、印刷装置に入力された認証情報を印刷装置から受信して認証情報に基づく認証処理を行い、認証処理の結果に応じて認証情報の送信元の印刷装置である認証印刷装置に印刷データを送信する。【選択図】図１０