Patent ID: 9712715
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A printing control system for controlling printing on a recording medium, comprising: a server; an approver terminal communicable with the server; an image forming apparatus communicable with the server; and a mobile terminal communicable with the image forming apparatus, wherein the server includes a printing determination section and a storage section configured to store therein document information, the mobile terminal transmits output request information and location information to the server via the image forming apparatus, the output request information includes information requesting the server to transmit a print job based on the document information, the location information includes information indicating a location of the mobile terminal, upon the output request information and the location information being transmitted from the mobile terminal to the server via the image forming apparatus, the printing determination section determines whether or not to transmit the print job to the image forming apparatus corresponding to the location information in accordance with an approval status of the document information, the approval status varies depending on presence or absence of transmission of content approval information from the approver terminal to the server and depending on presence or absence of transmission of output approval information from the approver terminal to the server, the content approval information approving content of the document information, the output approval information approving output conditions for output of an image based on the document information, the printing control system further comprises a document creator terminal communicable with the server, the document creator terminal: the content approval request information includes information requesting approval of the content of the document information, the output approval request information includes information indicating the output conditions and information requesting approval of the output conditions, the approver terminal includes a notification section configured to notify that approval of the content of the document information has been requested and that approval of the output conditions has been requested, and the approver terminal transmits the content approval information for the content approval request information and the output approval information for the output approval request information to the server.