摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a network printing system that reduces a burden of a network administrator and is capable of implementing a measure against an unauthorized use of a printing function on the network. <P>SOLUTION: A client instrument 102 notifies a security management server 101 that it has received PDL data from a host computer 104 (Step S503). At the security management server 101 that has received the notification, the security level of the client instrument 102 is checked and determined (Step S506). The determination result is notified to the client instrument 102 (Step S507), and the client instrument 102 controls processing of printing based on the restriction corresponding to the determination result (Step S509). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |