JP2003177899A - Printing system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printing system whose convenience is improved. <P>SOLUTION: A mail server 12 receives an electronic mail including data to be printed, and judges whether to execute security printing or end batch printing according to a prescribed condition, and transmits the judgement result with the electronic mail to a reservation managing server 13. The reservation managing server 13 applies the same reservation identifier to print data belonging to a data group to be printed being the target of end batch printing, and applies a reservation identifier different from that reservation identifier to data which are not the target of end batch printing. A user instructs the printing of the print data based on the reservation identifier, and the reservation managing server 13 requests the input of a password when the instructed print data are the target of security printing, and when the inputted password is matched with the issued password, it starts printing processing. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a printing system for transmitting / receiving data to be printed by using electronic mail.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, the use of networks has become widespread, and a mode of use has been considered in which data in a computer is output to an external high performance printer via the network. Specifically, a user prints data (print data) to be printed on a printing system (a system including a multi-function peripheral having a function of a copying machine or a printer and a server computer) arranged in a convenience store or the like. When the instruction is sent by e-mail, print data is extracted on the side of the multi-function peripheral, the identification data is added to the print data for management, and the identification data is sent to the user for notification. The user presents the identification number to the printing system, and prints the print data managed by the printing system with the identification number.

At this time, since the user sent by electronic mail is usually located in a place away from the printing system (for example, at home), it takes a certain amount of time before the user comes to pick it up. Becomes Therefore, if the printing system receives and immediately starts the printing process, the printing result may be left unattended, and may be erroneously taken away or discarded.

Further, when there are a plurality of print data, when each print data is transmitted by an individual electronic mail, different identification numbers are associated with each other, so that the user can obtain all the print results. Each of the different identification numbers will be input.

[0005]

As described above, in the above-mentioned conventional printing system, improvement in security is required. Therefore, the user sends the password together with the e-mail, and the multifunction device retains the received e-mail and the password in association with each other. When the password is entered, the print target data is output from the e-mail associated with the password. User authentication is performed before the print processing, such as extracting and printing, and performing the print processing only when the user is authenticated. That is, so-called security printing that requires predetermined authentication is performed. There is.

However, in any case, if security printing is performed, a password is required immediately when an e-mail including print target data is sent from a terminal in a convenience store, and the print result is immediately output. Will not be obtained. Similarly, when the above-mentioned conventional printing system is deployed in a company, a user in the company is always required to enter a password. Further, as described above, when a plurality of print data are sent by individual e-mails, it is necessary to specify different identification numbers for each print data, which is low in convenience.

The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object thereof is to provide a printing system with improved convenience.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention for solving the above-mentioned problems of the conventional example is directed to a client side device for transmitting print data to be printed by electronic mail, and received from the client side device. A printing system including a server device that extracts print data to be printed from an electronic mail and prints the print data, wherein the server device prints when a predetermined condition is satisfied during the print process. It is characterized in that a plurality of print data extracted as targets are collectively subjected to print processing.

[0009] Here, to collectively perform print processing means to process a plurality of print data as they are as a series of print jobs, or to present a plurality of print data to a user and select one from the selected print data. It also includes processing the above print data as a series of print jobs.

Here, the predetermined condition is that the e-mail address that is the destination of the e-mail, the information on the client side, the information on the attached file, the information related to the encryption, and the information about the delivery route. And at least one of the reception time interval of the e-mails from which the plurality of print data are extracted and the transmission time interval of the e-mails.
It is also preferable that the conditions are defined in relation to one.

Further, the present invention for solving the above-mentioned problems of the conventional example is a printing apparatus, and a means for receiving print data to be printed by electronic mail, and when predetermined conditions are satisfied. And means for collectively performing print processing on a plurality of print data received by individual e-mails, respectively. Here, the predetermined condition is an email address that is a destination of the email, information of a sender of the email, information of an attached file, information related to encryption, and information regarding a delivery route. It is also preferable that the condition is defined in relation to the classification condition including at least one of the above. Further, the predetermined condition may include a time condition including at least one of a time interval of receiving each of the individual electronic mails and a time interval of transmitting each of the individual electronic mails.

Further, here, an individual password is stored in association with each of the print data, and when each print data is printed, an authentication process using the individual password associated with each print data is performed. It is also preferable that the print data is printed when the authentication is performed.

In addition, it is troublesome if the user needs to individually input the password when he or she wants to print all at once. Therefore, in an aspect of the present invention, a batch password is stored in association with the plurality of print data to be collectively printed, and the batch password is stored when the plurality of print data is collectively printed. It is also preferable to collectively print the plurality of print data when the authentication is performed.

According to another aspect, by using both the individual password and the collective password, the collective password is stored in association with the plurality of print data to be collectively printed, and the plurality of print data are stored. When collectively performing print processing of the print data of, when the authentication using the collective password is performed, the print processing of the plurality of print data is collectively performed, and when the authentication using the individual password is performed,
It is also preferable to individually perform the print processing of the print data associated with the individual password among the plurality of print data to be collectively printed.

Further, in these, it is confirmed with respect to the sender who has transmitted a plurality of print data by electronic mail whether or not the print processing is collectively performed.
It is also preferable to collectively print the plurality of print data.

The present invention for solving the above-mentioned problems of the prior art is a printing method, which comprises a step of receiving print data to be printed by electronic mail, and when a predetermined condition is satisfied. And collectively performing a print process on a plurality of print data received by individual e-mails, respectively.

Further, the present invention for solving the above-mentioned problems of the conventional example is a print processing program, and a procedure for receiving print data to be printed by an electronic mail in a computer and a predetermined condition are provided. When satisfied, it is also preferable to execute a procedure for collectively performing print processing of a plurality of print data received by individual e-mails.

[0018]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION A printing system according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, the printing system 10 according to the present embodiment is configured to include a printer server 11, a mail server 12, a reservation management server 13, and a plurality of printing devices 14a, 14b ... LAN (Local Area Network)
Are connected to each other by. This printing system includes other printing systems 10b, 10c ...
And the terminal side system 20. The terminal system 20 includes a terminal device 21 and a mail server 22. Here, the printer server 11, the mail server 12,
The reservation management server 13 and the printing device 14 constitute the server device of the present invention, and the terminal side system constitutes the client device of the present invention.

In this embodiment, one of the printing systems (first system) is data to be printed (print data).
Is received and stored, and when a print instruction is received by another printing system (second system), the second instruction
The system requests the first system to transfer the print data, and the print data transferred in response to the request is printed out by the second system. Further, the plurality of printing devices 14a, 14b ... Includes a printing device that performs security printing and a printing device that does not perform security printing. Here, it is assumed that the printing device 14a performs security printing and the printing device 14b does not perform security printing.

The printer server 11 is the reservation management server 1
3 receives the print data and the designation of the printing device 14 for printing the print data, and the designated printing device 1
4 to send print data. The mail server 12 receives an electronic mail transmitted via the network. The mail server 12 also checks the content of the received electronic mail and determines whether to perform the security printing based on a predetermined condition. Further, it is determined based on a predetermined condition whether or not to collectively print with the print data included in another e-mail from the content of the received e-mail. That is, it is determined based on a predetermined condition whether or not the print data extracted from the individually received e-mails is set to be collectively printed. Then, the received e-mail, and the reception time, the supplementary information including the result of the judgment as to whether or not the security printing and the batch printing are performed are transmitted to the reservation management server 13. Here, the result of the determination as to whether or not the batch printing is performed includes information that specifies the print data that is the target of the batch printing (collective target specifying information). As the batch target specifying information, for example, the information of the identifier of the e-mail received including the print data to be batch printed can be used. The conditions used for determining whether to perform the security printing in the mail server 12 and whether to perform the batch printing will be described in detail later. That is, this mail server 12 corresponds to a means for receiving the electronic mail of the present invention and a means for determining whether or not to perform predetermined authentication based on a predetermined condition.

The reservation management server 13 operates according to a program stored in an internal ROM (not shown), and in the printing system on the side that receives print data by e-mail (the above-mentioned first system side). Operation (hereinafter,
“Receiving side operation”) and an operation (hereinafter, referred to as “printing side operation”) in the printing system on the side that actually performs the printing process (the second system side described above) according to the instruction. Since these operations are different from each other, they will be described separately below.

(Receiving Side Operation) First, the receiving side operation will be described with reference to FIG. The reservation management server 13 on the first system side receives the electronic mail from the mail server 12, starts the processing (reservation processing) shown in FIG. 2, and extracts the print data from the electronic mail (S1). In other words, this reservation management server 13 corresponds to the means for extracting print data from the electronic mail of the present invention. Then, it is determined whether or not the incidental information related to the electronic mail is received from the mail server 12 (S2). When the incidental information is received (Yes), whether or not the security printing is performed from the incidental information is determined. When it is checked (S3) and security printing is performed (Yes), a password (individual password) is issued (S4). The reservation management server 13 further checks from the incidental information whether or not to perform batch printing (S5),
When batch printing is not performed (No), a reservation identifier is issued (S6), and the reservation identifier and print data are associated and stored as a reservation database as shown in FIG. 3 (S7). Then, the reservation management server 13 instructs the mail server 12 to reply the reservation identifier to the sender (user) of the e-mail by e-mail (S).
8). At this time, if there is an individual password issued in step S4, the individual password is also included in the returned e-mail. And reservation management server 1
3 ends the process.

The reservation identifier issued in step S6 includes information unique to the first system and information specifying print data. As an example, this reservation identifier is
It is composed of address information for specifying the first system and a reservation number.

On the other hand, when batch printing is performed in step S5 (Yes), the batch target specifying information included in the supplementary information is referred to, and a new reservation identifier is not issued and the batch printing is targeted. The same reservation identifier as the reservation identifier attached to the print data is associated and registered in the reservation database (S9). In this processing S9, if there is the individual password issued in the processing S4, the individual password is registered in the reservation database in association with the print data. Then, the reservation management server 13 shifts to the processing S8 and continues the processing. That is, the reservation identifier in this case does not identify each print data, but identifies a print data group to be collectively subjected to print processing as a group of print data.

If the incidental information has not been received (No in step S2), the process directly proceeds to step S6. If the security printing is not performed (No in step S3), the reservation management server 13 proceeds to step S5 and continues the process.

In addition to the reservation process, the reservation management server 13 receives the reservation identifier and the transfer request, and print data registered in the reservation database in association with the reservation identifier. All the print data of (1) is transmitted to the request source of the transfer request (transfer processing).
At this time, if there is print data associated with the individual password, the individual password is also transmitted together with the print data.

(Printing Side Operation) Next, the printing side operation will be described. The reservation management server 13 on the side of the second system receives the input of the reservation identifier and the print instruction from the user, and FIG.
Process is started, the printing system (first system in this case) storing the print data that is the target of the print instruction is specified from the reservation identifier, and the reservation identifier and the transfer request are sent to the printing system. Is transmitted (S21).

Then, when the print data is transmitted by the transfer processing according to the transfer request, the print data is received and stored, and the first print data (if there is only one print data, the print data Data) is selected, and the following processes are performed in order from the selected print data.

First, it is checked whether or not the individual password is received together with the selected print data (S22), and if the individual password is received (Yes), it is determined that the security printing is performed. , The print data and the individual password are transmitted to the printing device 14a (printing device that performs security printing) via the printer server 11 (S23), and it is determined whether there is print data that has not been processed (S24). ), If there is print data that has not been processed (Yes), the next print data is selected and the process returns to step S22 to continue the process.

On the other hand, in the process S24, if there is no print data that has not been processed (if the process for all the print data is completed, that is, if No), the process is ended.

If the individual password is not received in step S22 (if No), it is determined that the security printing is not performed, and the print data is sent to the printing device 14b (security printing is performed) via the printer server 11. To a non-printing device) (S25) and process S24
Move to and continue processing.

(Processing in Printing Device 14) Next, processing in the printing device 14 will be described. The printing device 14a that performs the security printing receives the print data and the individual password from the reservation management server 13, displays a message asking for the input of the individual password, and when the individual password is input by the user, the input individual password And the individual password received from the reservation management server 13 are collated. As a result of the collation, if the input individual password and the received individual password match (in the case of successful collation),
Print processing is performed based on the print data. If the two passwords do not match as a result of the collation (collation fails), the printing process is not performed.

On the other hand, when the printing data is received from the reservation management server 13, the printing device 14b which does not perform the security printing performs the printing process based on the printing data.

(Conditions for Determining Security Printing in Mail Server 12) Conditions for determining whether to perform security printing in the mail server 12 will be described. The mail server 12 uses the sender's address (sender's mail address) and header information of the received electronic mail to determine the sender's name, affiliated domain, base,
Company or ISP (Internet Service Provider)
Information is extracted, and whether or not to perform security printing is determined based on the information. Specifically, when the mail address of the mail server 12 is “aaa@bb.cc”, the mail address of the sender of the e-mail received including the print data is “ppp@qq.rr”. In this way, if the mail server 12 and the sender of the print data belong to different domains, it is determined that the security printing is performed, and the mail address of the sender of the email is "xxx @
If the mail server 12 and the sender of the print data belong to the same domain, such as "bb.cc", it is determined that the secure printing is not performed.

The mail server 12 also determines whether or not there is an attached file, the type of the attached file (which can be obtained from a MIME header, etc.), the presence or absence of encryption, and the information of the receiving path of the electronic mail (refer to the header of the electronic mail). It is possible to determine whether or not to perform the security printing based on these conditions. Regarding the encrypted print data, the mail server 12, the reservation management server 13, or the printing device 14 decrypts the encrypted print data and performs the printing process.

Further, information regarding a user who does not perform security printing (or a user who performs security printing) (email address of the user) is set in the mail server 12, and the received e-mail is received from the user. In some cases, it may be determined that security printing is not performed (or security printing is performed).

Alternatively, the judgment may be made by combining the conditions shown here. For example, in one example, it is determined that the security printing is not performed only for the user who has the information of the company to which the sender belongs registered in advance and is set not to perform the security printing. In another example, when the attached file is a text file or is encrypted, it is determined that the security printing is performed.

(Conditions for Collective Printing) Further, the conditions for determining whether or not collective printing is performed in the mail server 12 will be described. The mail server 12 creates a list of reception times for each email address of the sender of the received email, and records the reception time interval (or transmission interval) for each email address. Then, for a plurality of e-mails received at a reception interval smaller than a predetermined threshold value, it is determined that the batch printing is performed on the condition. As described above, the time condition (time condition) such as the reception time interval and the transmission time interval of the plurality of emails including the plurality of print data, respectively, is set as the batch printing determination condition.

Further, the mail server 12 determines whether or not to carry out batch printing using conditions (classification conditions) for classifying electronic mails, such as the sender's mail address, presence / absence of attached files, and their types. Alternatively, it may be determined whether or not the batch printing is performed by using both the classification condition and the time condition.

It should be noted that it is preferable that an administrator of the printing system can change the judgment conditions of whether or not to perform the security printing and the judgment conditions of the collective printing.

[Operation] Next, the operation of the printing system according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. The mail server 12 of the printing system (first system) that receives the email from the user receives the email (S
31), it is determined whether or not to perform the security printing based on the conditions determined by the relationship such as the sender's mail address of the electronic mail, the attached file or encryption, the domain of the first system, the receiving path of the electronic mail, etc. (S32). ). Further, it is determined whether or not the batch printing is performed based on the conditions related to the reception interval and the transmission interval of the email (S33).

For example, the e-mail address "ppp@qq.r
It is assumed that the user "r" has sent e-mails including print data three times at 0:00:00, 0:00:30, and 0: 5: 0. That is, the first email,
The transmission interval between the second e-mail is 30 seconds, and the transmission interval between the second e-mail and the third e-mail is 5 seconds.
Minutes. At this time, if the transmission interval time, which is the threshold value for batch printing, is set to "2 minutes", the first and second e-mails are targeted for batch printing. The third email is not subject to batch printing. Also, the mail server 1 of the first system
The email address assigned to 2 is "aaa @ b
If it is "b.cc", it belongs to a domain different from the sender's email address, and therefore, for example, it is determined to perform security printing on the condition.

The mail server 12 sends the results of these judgments to the reservation management server 13 together with the received electronic mail (S34). The reservation management server 13 extracts print data from each e-mail (S35), and issues and registers a reservation identifier depending on whether each print data is a target of batch printing (S36). That is, in the above example, the print data (first data) included in the first e-mail,
The same reservation identifier is issued for the print data (second data) included in the second e-mail, and the same reservation identifier is issued for the third print data (third data). A reservation identifier different from is issued. Here, the reservation identifier is composed of, for example, a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) of the reservation management server 13 and a reservation number.

Further, in the case of this example, since security printing is performed, an individual password is issued and registered for each print data, and the reservation identifier and the individual password issued for each print data are registered. Mail server 1
2 is transmitted (S37). Then, the user receives the reservation identifier and the individual password issued for each print data by e-mail.

The user visits the printing system (second system) that actually performs the printing process, and inputs the reservation identifier to the reservation management server 13 (S41). Here, when the user prints each of the first data, the second data, and the third data, two reservation identifiers, a reservation identifier common to the first data and the second data and a reservation identifier of the third data Will be entered.

The reservation management server 13 on the second system side
The reservation management server 13 on the first system side is specified by referring to each of these two reservation identifiers, and the first system side is requested to transfer the print data associated with the reservation identifier (S42). In response to this, the reservation management server 13 on the first system side transfers each print data and the individual password associated with each print data (S4).
3).

The reservation management server 13 on the second system side is
Upon receiving the transfer of the transferred print data and the individual password, since the individual password is attached, it is determined that the security printing is performed, and the print data is transmitted to the printing device 14a for the security printing through the printer server 11. Is transmitted (S44). Then, the printing device 14a prompts the user to input the individual password for the first data, and if the individual password input by the user and the individual password transferred together with the first data match, the first data is printed. Further, the same processing is performed on the second data and the third data.

[Batch Password] Since the passwords are individually set for the first and second data which are the targets of the batch printing here, it is necessary to input the individual password for each of them. It was Therefore, for the print data that is the target of batch printing, the same password is issued as a batch password and associated, and when the batch password is entered during the printing process and verification is successful, it becomes the target of batch printing. It is preferable that the printing process be performed for a plurality of print data that are present when the collation of the collective password is successful.

In this case, with respect to the print data to be batch printed, the batch password and the individual password are issued together and associated with each other. When the input and collation succeed, the print process is started for the multiple print data targeted for batch printing, and when the individual password is input and collation succeeds, the print data associated with the individual password is compared. It is also preferable to perform the printing process by using the above method.

At this time, both the collective password and the individual password are notified to the user, and the user can selectively use either one according to the situation at the place.

[Advance Registration Password] In the above description, the reservation management server 13 has issued an individual password or a collective password, but these passwords are:
It is also possible to use a password registered in advance for each user. Even in this case, if an individual password or a collective password is issued, the previously registered password is requested to be input with these issued passwords, and when both the registered password and the issued password are successfully collated, You may make it perform a printing process.

[Confirmation Processing] Further, security printing or batch printing may be confirmed by the user. That is, when the mail server 12 determines to perform the security printing, an email notifying the user that the security printing is to be performed is transmitted, and when the user replies to the transmitted email, Set not to perform secure printing. In other words, it means that secure printing is not performed if confirmation is made by the user.

Also in the case of batch printing, the user is notified by e-mail that the batch printing is to be performed.
When the user replies, it is not included in the batch printing. Similarly, it is notified by e-mail that it is not targeted for batch printing, and when a user responds, it is targeted for batch printing.

It should be noted that here, "when there is a reply" means that the above processing is performed regardless of the content of the returned e-mail, but depending on the content of the returned e-mail. , Whether to print with security,
Further, it may be determined whether or not batch printing is performed, and further, if these are performed, which print data is targeted for security printing or batch printing.

[Security printing by receiving address
Determination of Batch Printing] It is also preferable to assign a plurality of electronic mail addresses to the mail server 12. In this case, it is judged that the print data included in the e-mail received at one e-mail address will be security printed, and if it is received at another e-mail address, it will be judged that batch printing will be performed, and further In case of the email address of
In the case of another e-mail address, the e-mail address for reception can be used as a condition for security printing or batch printing, such as neither security printing nor batch printing.

When a plurality of e-mail addresses are used in this way, a condition defined in the relationship between the user and the printing system 10 of the present embodiment for a user who intends to send an e-mail containing print data. It is also preferable to selectively notify any of the e-mail addresses determined in.

For example, when the user's e-mail address and the e-mail address of the printing system 10 belong to different domains, the user is notified of the e-mail address for security printing.

In this embodiment, a case has been described as an example where a plurality of printing devices 14 including a printing device 14a that performs security printing and a printing device 14b that does not perform security printing are used. However, the printing device 14 There may be only one. In this case, the printing device 14 determines whether or not to perform the security printing by the instruction of whether or not to perform the security printing from the reservation management server 13 (or whether or not to receive the password together with the print data from the reservation management server 13). When performing secure printing,
The user is requested to input a password (individual password or collective password), and the printing process is performed only when the received password and the input password are successfully collated. In this case, the mail server 12 and the reservation management server 13
The printer 14 and the printer 14 may be configured as an integrated printer.

Further, in the above-mentioned example, it is explained that the first system side receives the electronic mail and the print data is transferred to the second system side for printing. However, the first system side receives the electronic mail, It is also possible to accept the print instruction on the side of the first system and execute the print processing by the printing device 14. In this case, the process S4 of the operation shown in FIG.
2, the process related to the transfer in S43 is unnecessary, and the process up to printing is performed only by the first system.

[0060]

According to the present invention, the print data to be printed is sent by electronic mail, and the receiving side receives the print data.
The printing system extracts the print data to be printed from the received e-mail and collectively prints the plurality of print data extracted as the printing target when a predetermined condition is satisfied. Can be improved.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a printing system according to an embodiment of the present invention and a connection state thereof.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a receiving side operation of a reservation management server.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of contents of a reservation database.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a printing-side operation of a reservation management server.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing an operation of the printing system according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 printing system, 11 printer server, 12 mail server, 13 reservation management server, 14 printing device,
20 Terminal system.

Claims (11)

[Claims] 1. A client-side device that sends print data to be printed by electronic mail, print data to be printed is extracted from an electronic mail received from the client-side device, and the print data is printed. A printing system including a server device for performing a printing process, wherein the server device collectively prints a plurality of print data extracted as print targets when a predetermined condition is satisfied in the printing process. Printing system. 2. The printing system according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined condition relates to an email address that is a destination of the email, information on a client side, information on an attached file, and encryption. Information, delivery route information, a reception time interval of the e-mail from which the plurality of print data are extracted, and a transmission time interval of the e-mail, the condition being defined in relation to at least one. A printing system characterized by: 3. A means for receiving print data to be printed by e-mail, and a process of collectively processing a plurality of print data received by individual e-mails when predetermined conditions are satisfied. A printing device comprising: a means. 4. The printing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the predetermined conditions are an email address that is a destination of the email, information of a sender of the email, information of an attached file, and encryption. A printing apparatus, which is a condition defined in association with a classification condition that includes at least one of information related to the conversion and information about a delivery route. 5. The printing apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the predetermined condition includes at least one of a time interval of receiving each of the individual electronic mails and a time interval of transmitting each of the individual electronic mails. A printing device characterized in that the conditions include a dead time condition. 6. The printing apparatus according to claim 3, further storing an individual password in association with each of the print data, and performing print processing on each print data. A printing apparatus, which performs an authentication process using the individual password associated with data, and prints the print data when the authentication is performed. 7. The printing apparatus according to claim 3, further comprising: storing a batch password in association with a plurality of print data to be collectively printed, and storing the plurality of print data. A printing apparatus, wherein, when performing batch print processing, when the authentication using the batch password is performed, the plurality of print data are collectively print processed. 8. The printing apparatus according to claim 6, further comprising: storing a batch password in association with the plurality of print data to be collectively printed, and collectively storing the plurality of print data. When performing the print processing, when the authentication using the collective password is performed, the plurality of print data are collectively processed, and when the authentication using the individual password is performed, the plurality of print processing are collectively performed. Among the print data of, the printing apparatus individually performs the print processing of the print data associated with the individual password. 9. The printing apparatus according to any one of claims 3 to 8, wherein a sender who has sent a plurality of print data by e-mail confirms whether or not to collectively perform print processing, When the confirmation is made, the printing apparatus collectively prints the plurality of print data. 10. A step of receiving print data to be printed by e-mail, and collectively processing a plurality of print data received by individual e-mails when a predetermined condition is satisfied. A printing method comprising: a step. 11. A procedure of receiving print data to be printed by e-mail on a computer, and when a predetermined condition is satisfied, collectively collects a plurality of print data received by individual e-mails. A print processing program characterized by executing a print processing procedure and executing.