Patent ID: 8964228
Filing Date: 2015-02-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing system comprising: a plurality of printing apparatuses each of which prints print document information and outputs a document; a terminal that stores print document information, that acquires information on a location of the terminal and generates location information, and that transmits the print document information and the location information; and a print server that receives, from the terminal, the print document information and the location information of the terminal, that generates authentication information and associates the generated authentication information with the print document information, that identifies one printing apparatus from among the plurality of printing apparatuses in accordance with the location information of the terminal and location information of the plurality of printing apparatuses, and that transmits the generated authentication information to the identified printing apparatus, wherein the identified printing apparatus displays authentication reference information in accordance with the authentication information received from the print server, wherein the terminal receives input of information that is based on the authentication reference information and transmits the input information to the print server, and wherein upon receipt of the input information from the terminal, if the input information matches the authentication information, the print server transmits the print document information associated with the authentication information to the identified printing apparatus.