摘要 |
A document management server of this invention includes a storage unit which stores output device management information and document management information, the output device management information associating, for each output device, a group to which the output device belongs and a device-corresponding-group as a group made to correspond to the output device, and the document management information associating, for each document file, a group to which the document file belongs and a document-corresponding-group as a group made to correspond to the document file, an output permission determination unit which refers to the output device management information and the document management information in accordance with an instruction to output a designated document file from a designated output device, and determines that output is permitted when a group to which the designated document file belongs is contained in a device-corresponding-group associated with the designated output device, and a group to which the designated output device belongs is contained in a document-corresponding-group associated with the designated document file, and a transmission unit which transmits the designated document file to the designated output device when it is determined by the output permission determination unit that output is permitted.
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