| 摘要 |
Provided are a printing control apparatus and method in which the storage capacity of a hard disk in an information processor is not exploited unnecessarily because identical data that has been distributed to a plurality of users is not stored in a plurality of personal boxes within the information processor, and in which output of such data by the users who manage respective ones of the personal boxes can be managed appropriately by the original distributor of the data. A control unit receives a job instructing storage of prescribed data upon designating one or a plurality box areas in an image input/output system equipped with a personal box function and having a plurality of box areas capable of storing data. Based upon the job, the control unit stores the image data in a prescribed box area and outputs the image data from the prescribed box area. If a job for which storage of the image data in a plurality of box areas has been instructed is received, the control unit stores the image data in a common box area with which the image input/output system has been further provided for the purpose of storing common image data and stores linking information, which provides a link to this image data, in the plurality of box areas.
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