Patent ID: 8860974
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. A print control apparatus comprising: a communication unit which communicates with a server; a print instruction acceptance unit which accepts a print instruction to make a printing apparatus execute printing; a judgment unit which judges whether or not the printing apparatus is a registered printing apparatus which has been registered on the server based on registration information acquired from the server through the communication unit when the print instruction has been accepted; a permission unit which permits the printing apparatus to execute printing based on the print instruction when the printing apparatus has been judged to be the registered printing apparatus; a restriction unit which inhibits the printing apparatus from executing printing based on the print instruction when the printing apparatus has not been judged to be the registered printing apparatus; and a notification unit which makes a notification for prompting a user to register the printing apparatus on the server as the registered printing apparatus in response to accepting the print instruction to execute printing when the printing apparatus has not been judged to be the registered printing apparatus.