Patent ID: 9398188
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06F,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A printing control system communicably connected to a multifunctional portable terminal, the printing control system being configured to generate a printing command to a printer, the printing control system comprising: a communication device configured to receive an image transmitted from the multifunctional portable terminal; a recording device configured to record the image received by the communication device as a received image; and a control device including a printing management unit capable of generating a printing command for causing the printer to print the received image; wherein the printing management unit of the control device is configured to exclude, when a creation date and time of the received image is out of a predetermined printable period, the received image from an item to be printed, or to exclude, when the number of received images is out of a predetermined printable number, at least a part of the received images, which exceeds the printable number, from an item to be printed, wherein the control device further includes a composite-image forming unit configured to form a composite image by combining the received image and predetermined format information with each other, and the composite image is transmitted to the printer, and wherein the composite-image forming unit includes a general-format-information management unit configured to manage general format information capable of being used regardless of a date and time at which the printing control system is operated, and the composite-image forming unit is capable of forming a composite image by combining the received image and the general format information.