Abstract: A method of controlling login requirements of a plurality of peripheral device applications includes defining one of the peripheral device applications as a master application, with all other peripheral device applications being slave applications, enabling the master application to obtain login information from an operator, and enabling at least one of the slave applications to seek login information from the master application and, if the login information is not available for the slave application, enabling the slave application to obtain login information under the control of the master application by executing a slave login process.

Abstract: A personal print mailbox software application for printing or peripheral device, such as a photocopier, is disclosed. Documents received on the printing device have associated information sent with them identifying the user logged in on the workstation that sent them. Documents from various users are collected in a common storage area or mailbox on the printing device. When a user visits the printing device to select documents of his or hers to print the user logs in to the photocopier. The application verifies the log in against the same user identity/security system, such as Windows Active Directory, that was used to log the users into their workstations. The application then presents the user with a list of his or her documents only, from which he or she may select documents, for example, to print.