Seiko Epson Corporation

Takeshi Okamoto

Fumio Nagasaka

Hiromu Okada

Hirofumi Miyamoto

Kazuki Tadachi

Kaoru Takemae

A printing control apparatus suppresses information leaking due to a print job being printed when the user is not at the printer. A printing control apparatus that connects to a terminal and a printer has: a communicator configured to receive from the terminal a specified-printer job, which is a print job for which the printer is designated as a print destination; and a controller. If the specified-printer job is not confidential, the controller sends print data based on the specified-printer job to a specified printer, which is the printer designated as the print destination in the specified-printer job. If the specified-printer job is confidential, the controller receives authentication information input to the printer from the printer and executes an authentication process based on the authentication information, and sends the print data to an authenticated printer according to a result of the authentication process.

Print control apparatus, control method of a print control apparatus, and recording medium

A printing management server includes an identification information management unit that manages identification information uniquely associated with an email address assigned to a printer, a print request receiving unit that receives a print request that is a request to print content and that accompanies the identification information, and a print instructing unit that designates an email address, corresponding to the identification information accompanying the print request specified by the identification information management unit, to an email printing server that causes a printer corresponding to a designated email address to execute a print, and instructs the email printing server to cause the printer corresponding to the designated email address to print content included in the print request.

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Nagano, Japan

Takeshi Okamoto