US 12,141,488 B2
Image forming apparatus and method for controlling an image forming apparatus capable of communicating with a system for censorship function
Keishi Araki, Ibaraki (JP)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/932,231.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-152862 (JP), filed on Sep. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0092023 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/12 (2006.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 3/1238 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1222 (2013.01); G06F 21/608 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image forming apparatus capable of communicating with a system having a censorship function, the image forming apparatus comprising:
one or more controllers having one or more processors and one or more memories, the one or more controllers configured:
to receive a first setting for setting whether to use a zero-trust mode of the image forming apparatus from a user;
to receive a second setting for setting, corresponding to a level, whether printing is performable from the user;
to transmit a request for executing censorship for print data to the system in a case where the zero-trust mode is set to be used;
to receive, from the system, information indicating a level specified by the censorship, the level corresponding to whether printing is performable;
to function according to the received second setting and the information indicating the level specified by the censorship for the print data;
to receive a selection, from the user, of a first notification method to display a message indicating an error on a screen, in a case where the image forming apparatus determines, based on the received second setting, that printing is not performable or a second notification method to transmit an e-mail including a message indicating an error, in the case where the image forming apparatus determines, based on the received second setting, that printing is not performable; and
to display a setting screen,
wherein the first setting, the second setting, and the selection are received from the user in a state that the setting screen is displayed on the screen.