Enabling the User Restriction Settings

This section explains how to configure settings to permit only authorized users to use certain machine functions.

Using Web Image Monitor, enable user restriction for all or some of the functions listed below, and then register users who can use those functions.

  • Copying (both color and black-and-white)

  • Color copying

  • Sending faxes

  • Scan to E-mail/FTP/Folder

  • Scan to USB

  • Printing (both color and black-and-white)

  • Color printing

  • Sending faxes via LAN-Fax

You can specify functions available to each user upon authentication. Up to 30 users can be registered.

  1. Start the Web browser, and access the machine by entering its IP address.
    The top page of Web Image Monitor appears.

  2. Click [Restrict Available Functions].

  3. Under "Available Functions", select [Restrict] for the functions you want to restrict, and then click [Apply].
    Web browser screen illustration
    Select [Do not Restrict] for the functions you do not want to restrict.
    The user restriction setting is enabled for the selected function. Proceed to the following steps to register users.

  4. Enter the administrator password.

  5. Click [Apply].

  6. Click [Available Functions per User].
    A list of currently registered user entries appears.
    Web browser screen illustration

  7. Select a user entry, and then click [Change].
    The following window appears.
    Web browser screen illustration

  8. Enter the user name in [User Name] using up to 16 alphanumeric characters.

  9. Enter the user code in [User Code] using up to 8 digits.
    The user code will be used to authenticate users when they try to use a restricted function.

  10. Select the functions you want to make available to the user upon authentication.
    Unselected functions will be unavailable to users authenticated under this user code.

  11. Enter the administrator password.

  12. Click [Apply].

  13. Close the Web browser.

Note

  • You must enter both the user name and user code to register a user entry.

  • Make sure that different user entries do not share the same user name or user code.

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