An apparatus and method for performing authentication using biometric authentication processing at a portable terminal connected to a multifunction peripheral (MFP) is provided. A web application accesses the portable terminal via a web browser of the MFP and the MFP transmits a request for information about service to the portable terminal. In a case where information corresponding to the web application is included in the information about service received from the portable terminal responsive to the request, the MFP transmits an authentication request to the portable terminal according to a request from the web application, and transmits, to the web application, an authentication result received from the portable terminal responsive to the authentication request.

A control method of a printing apparatus for acquiring a print job from a cloud print service, and performing printing based on the acquired print job includes transmitting, in a case where a notification received from the cloud print service includes information indicating that a fetchable print job exists, a first request related to the print job, to the cloud print service, executing login processing of causing a user to log into the printing apparatus, and transmitting a second request related to the print job, to the cloud print service conditional upon the login processing being performed.

In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a system is described. The system includes an outsourcing engine to select a contracting print device to which a print job is to be outsourced. A recipe generating engine of the system generates a recipe for a print job. The recipe includes 1) settings for the print job and 2) settings for the contracting print device that is to generate the print job. The system also includes an encoder to encrypt the recipe and an exception processor to respond to requests from the contracting print device to deviate from the recipe.

A printing system according to an aspect is a printing system in which a printing apparatus and an information processing apparatus are connected via a network, the information processing apparatus receiving image data from an imaging apparatus that images a user of the printing apparatus and performing authentication processing for the user based on the image data, the printing apparatus including a detecting section configured to detect a human body and a transmitting section configured to transmit detection information by the detecting section. The information processing apparatus includes a receiving section configured to receive the detection information and a control section configured to control, based on the detection information, whether to perform the authentication processing.

For protecting confidential information in a printed document, the invention provides a system and method for, on one hand, encrypting the confidential content of the document and then printing the part or parts of the document with confidential information in an encrypted form and the rest of the document in a non-encrypted form, and, on the other hand, decrypting the encrypted document content for display and use or for printing. In addition, for preventing unauthorized copying and tampering of a printed document, the invention provides a system and method for managing a unique tag, which is attached to the document and which authenticates the document.

A printing apparatus, that performs communication via a secure first network and communication via a second network, receives print data from a first terminal apparatus connected to the first network, via the first network, or from a second terminal apparatus connected to the second network, via the second network, and transmits information for the print data to at least either one of a first server that performs communication via the first network and a second server that performs communication via the second network, based on through which of the first and the second networks the print data has been received. In the printing apparatus, in a case where the print data is received via the first network, the information for the print data is transmitted to the first server via the first network, without via the second network.

A system and method in accordance with examples may include an identity verification kiosk. The identity verification kiosk may include a display comprising a user interface; a card reader; a document scanner; a printer; and a processor in data communication with a server and a database storing user information. The processor may be configured to receive an identification verification request from the user interface; receive user information via the document scanner or the card reader; retrieve user information from the database; verify the identity of a user; and print a unique identifier on a document using the printer.

In a server device, a memory is configured to store a folder corresponding to each of a plurality of users. User permissions are set for the folder to indicate whether access to the folder is allowed. A client device is configured to perform transmitting print data to the server device. The print data is associated with identification information for identifying a user. A set of program instructions causes the server device to perform: in response to receiving the print data from the client device, storing the print data in the folder corresponding to the user identified by the identification information associated with the print data. A printer is configured to perform: receiving an input of the identification information; identifying the folder corresponding to the user identified by the identification information; acquiring the print data stored in the folder; and printing an image based on the print data.

An image forming apparatus includes a memory that stores identification information of authorized users in association with biometric information thereof, a reading device configured to read identification information from a medium, an input device through which biometric information is input, and a processor configured to, upon receipt of one of identification and biometric information, perform a first authentication by determining whether said one of identification and biometric information is stored, when said one of identification and biometric information is stored, upon receipt of the other of identification and biometric information, perform a second authentication by determining whether the other of identification and biometric information is stored in association with said one of identification and biometric information, and when the other of identification and biometric information is stored, enable a first operation that can be performed for the corresponding authorized user.

Provided is an information processing apparatus that performs alteration detection processing on every occasion of starting a program, comprising a writing component capable of writing a setting indicating whether or not to perform the alteration detection processing to a first region referable by a first program that firstly performs the alteration detection processing on another program and to a second region not referable by the first program at a point when the first program is started. The first program performs the alteration detection processing in accordance with the setting written in the first region, and a second program capable of referring to the second region performs the alteration detection processing in accordance with the setting written in the second region.