Patent ID: 7768665

Claim:
A printing control device installed in a client apparatus provided in a printing system in which a server apparatus connected to a printing device is connected to the client apparatus via a network, wherein the printing system is configured that with respect to a request to print from the client apparatus to the server apparatus, when a requester who makes the request to print is a registered user registered in advance, the server apparatus controls the printing device according to the request to print, wherein the printing system is configured to have, as an operation permission in the client apparatus: a user permission that is given for each user of the client apparatus registered in the printing system as the registered user to be accessible to only a predetermined area; and a system permission which is given to be accessible to an area to be accessed without restriction when the request to print is made to the server apparatus according to a print instruction by the user, wherein the printing system is configured that, when the request to print is made with the user permission, a user corresponding to the user permission being the requester, and when the request to print is made with the system permission, the requester being one different from the registered user, and wherein the printing control device comprises: a spool file generating unit that, according to an input of the user, operates with the user permission corresponding to the user and generates a spool file for a printing job; a spool file control unit that starts to operate with the system permission when processing information to process the spool file is included in the spool file generated by the spool file unit, processes content of the spool file based on the processing information, and requests to print for outputting the processed spool file to the server apparatus; and a permission impersonating unit that impersonates the operation permission as the user permission when the spool file control unit makes the request to print.