PRINTING APPARATUS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, PRINTING APPARATUS MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PRINTING APPARATUS MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that strict security management of a printing apparatus is difficult and it costs a lot to perform security management in a conventional printing apparatus management system.

SOLUTION: In a printing apparatus management system provided with a printing apparatus having an IC tag and a memory connected to the IC tag and a first information terminal having a function for writing information in the memory by radio communication to the IC tag, the first information terminal writes authentication data in the memory and transmits the authentication data to an another information terminal and the printing apparatus suspends a prescribed function when the authentication data are written by the first information terminal and makes the prescribed function effective when authentication data written by the first information terminal before the suspended state of the prescribed function and authentication data written by the first information terminal or the information terminal other than the first information terminal after the suspended state are coincident with each other when the authentication data are written in the memory by the first information terminal or the information terminal other than the first information terminal in the suspended state.

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