A print control method includes a confidential print control step. The confidential print control step includes determining whether skip permission conditions set in advance for each of the plurality of pieces of user designation data are satisfied when the submission destination designation data of the confidential job data requested to be executed includes a plurality of pieces of user designation data assigned with prioritization orders, thereby specifying the user designation data falling within a print permission range according to the prioritization orders, and executing confidential print control for the user designation data within the print permission range. The confidential print control step includes causing to execute the print processing for the confidential job data on the condition that the input authentication data by which the user authentication process is successful matches the data corresponding to the user designation data among the plurality of pieces of registration authentication data.

A job processing system includes a host computer and an image forming apparatus connected via a network with each other, the host computer includes a job register acceptor that accepts a job register and a communication device that sends the job register to the image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus includes a display controller and a job execution controller, the job execution controller controls sequential execution of a plurality of jobs shown in the changed job register in accordance with an execution order of the plurality of jobs, and the display controller keeps from making an update to cause a display of the changed job register immediately after a network interface device receives the changed job register, but makes an update to cause a display of the changed job register when a predetermined display updating condition is achieved after the receipt of the changed job register.

Setting conditions related to reading of an image of a document are registered in association with a user according to input by a user. When a user is identified, the priority order is determined so that a setting condition corresponding to the identified user is prioritized over a setting condition not corresponding to the user among the registered setting conditions, and the setting condition information indicating the setting conditions in the determined priority is displayed. The image is read under the setting condition based on the setting condition information selected according to the input by the user of the setting condition information indicating the displayed setting conditions.

An image forming apparatus may include: a storage that stores information in which a job type is associated with speech patterns for processings related to the job type; and a hardware processor that may: be inputted with a speech; acquire a job type; use speech patterns associated with a job type, which is acquired by the hardware processor and is being executed, to analyze a speech inputted during execution of the job; and execute the processings based on an analysis result by the hardware processor.

Both a transmission priority of order data and a reception priority of product data can be controlled based on a usage status of a bandwidth of a network.

In an image processing apparatus, an image processing method, a program, and a recording medium according to an embodiment of the present invention, product data is created based on order data received via a network. A transfer priority of current data over preceding data is determined based on a determination condition of transfer priorities, and control is performed such that the preceding data and the current data are transferred according to the transfer priorities. The transfer priorities are changed such that the transfer of the preceding data is interrupted and the transfer of the current data is started in a case where the transfer priority of the preceding data is lower than the transfer priority of the current data and the usage status of the bandwidth of the network due to the transfer of the preceding data is equal to or greater than a threshold value.

A print control method includes a confidential print control step. The confidential print control step includes determining whether skip permission conditions set in advance for each of the plurality of pieces of user designation data are satisfied when the submission destination designation data of the confidential job data requested to be executed includes a plurality of pieces of user designation data assigned with prioritization orders, thereby specifying the user designation data falling within a print permission range according to the prioritization orders, and executing confidential print control for the user designation data within the print permission range. The confidential print control step includes causing to execute the print processing for the confidential job data on the condition that the input authentication data by which the user authentication process is successful matches the data corresponding to the user designation data among the plurality of pieces of registration authentication data.

Setting conditions related to reading of an image of a document are registered in association with a user according to input by a user. When a user is identified, the priority order is determined so that a setting condition corresponding to the identified user is prioritized over a setting condition not corresponding to the user among the registered setting conditions, and the setting condition information indicating the setting conditions in the determined priority is displayed. The image is read under the setting condition based on the setting condition information selected according to the input by the user of the setting condition information indicating the displayed setting conditions.

An image forming apparatus (100) includes a guaranteed area (RA), a receiving section (501), a second determination section (504), and an execution section (505). The receiving section (501) receives jobs (JB). When the receiving section (501) receives a first job (JB1), the second determination section (504) determines whether or not a first user (U1) who has input the first job (JB1) matches a second user (U2) who has input a second job (JB2) that is under execution using the guaranteed area (RA). When the second determination section (504) determines that the first user (U1) matches the second user (U2), the execution section (505) loads an image included in the first job (JB1) into the guaranteed area (RA), and executes the first job (JB1) subsequent to the second job (JB2).

Setting conditions related to reading of an image of a document are registered in association with a user according to input by a user. When a user is identified, the priority order is determined so that a setting condition corresponding to the identified user is prioritized over a setting condition not corresponding to the user among the registered setting conditions, and the setting condition information indicating the setting conditions in the determined priority is displayed. The image is read under the setting condition based on the setting condition information selected according to the input by the user of the setting condition information indicating the displayed setting conditions.

An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit, an interrupt unit, a control unit, and a selection unit. The reading unit reads an original document. The interrupt unit interrupts a first read job for reading a first original bundle by the reading unit. The control unit executes a second read job, different from the first read job, for reading a second original bundle, different from the first original bundle, by the reading unit while the first read job is interrupted by the interrupt unit. The selection unit selects, from among one or more read jobs interrupted by the interrupt unit, a selected read job to be resumed after the second read job of the second original bundle is completed.