PRINT CONTROL SYSTEM, BROWSING TERMINAL, BROWSING PROGRAM, PRINTER, PRINTING PROGRAM, AUTHENTICATION SERVER AND AUTHENTICATION PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a print control system managing print permission of a content by a combination of an output printer and a user.

SOLUTION: In this print control system, when the user connects a browsing terminal to a multi-function machine and instructs the connected composite machine to print the content browsed by the browsing terminal, a print request is transmitted to the multi-function machine. The multi-function machine gives its own machine ID to the print request and transmits it to an authentication server. The authentication server decides whether or not printing can be permitted based on a combination of the browsing terminal and the multi-function machine. A combination of a browsing terminal ID and the multi-function machine ID is stored in an authentication table (S231: YES). When it is registered in the authentication table that the category containing the content to be printed is permitted to be printed (S232: YES), a print response 303 with information used for printing in the multi-function machine is created (S233), and is transmitted to the multi-function machine (S234) for printing.

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