Patent ID: 11941309
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. A printing control method of an information processing system for supporting trust printing that prints a document to be printed by registering the document in a document assurance system that assures authenticity of the document, the printing control method comprising:
obtaining information of usable image formation apparatuses, and providing a setting screen of an image formation apparatus selected from the usable image formation apparatuses based on the obtained information;
causing the selected image formation apparatus to print the document to be printed in accordance with a setting on the setting screen; and
registering the document to be printed and identification information of the document in the document assurance system in a case in which the trust printing is selected on the setting screen,
wherein the obtained information contains information indicating whether the selected image formation apparatus is capable of trust printing, and, if the selected image formation apparatus is incapable of the trust printing, the setting screen is displayed such that a setting item for the trust printing cannot be selected, and
wherein the printing control method comprises, in the trust printing, causing the image formation apparatus to print the document to be printed by synthesizing the document and the identification information.