Printing system for achieving a quick start and power saving

摘要

An output system having an output device that performs output on the basis of output data so that the output device performs the output after having acquired authentication including: an output data acquiring unit for acquiring the output data; an output data storing unit for storing the output data acquired by the output data acquiring unit in an output data memory unit; an authentication information acquiring unit for acquiring authentication information; a usage-qualification determining unit for determining a usage qualification of the output data on the basis of the authentication information acquired by the authentication information acquiring unit; an operating state controlling unit for controlling a state of the output device; an output process completion detecting unit for detecting completion of an output process in the output device; and a power-save switching unit for switching a state of the output device into either one of an active state in which the output process to be performed by an output processing unit is enabled and a power-saving state in which a drive power during a stand-by time for the output process on the basis of either one of a command from the operating state controlling unit and an elapsed time from a switching time which corresponds to a stand-by time for the active state until the state of the output device is switched from the active state to the power-saving state, wherein the operating state controlling unit outputs a power-save-cancel command for causing the power-saving state to be changed into the active state to the power-save switching unit after the device having the output data storing unit acquires the output data, and a transition-to-power-save command for causing the state to be changed from the active state to the power-saving state is outputted to the power-save switching unit when the fact that the output process of the output data is completed by the output process completion detecting unit.