Patent ID: 8305646

Claim:
An electronic document printing system comprising: an electronic document generator that generates electronic document data including a document image; and a print controller that receives electronic document data and instructs a printing device to print the electronic document; said electronic document generator including, a storage unit that stores a superimposed image, identification information for the superimposed image, a designation unit that designates a superimposed image to be incorporated into the document image from among superimposed images stored in the storage unit, and a superimposed-image information incorporating unit that incorporates, into the electronic document data, the superimposed image designated by said designation unit and identification information for the superimposed image; said print controller including, a condition storage unit that stores the identification information of the superimposed image to be invalidated when the electronic document data is printed, a determination unit that determines if the identification information included in the electronic document data to be printed matches the identification information stored in said condition storage unit, and a controlling unit that instructs the printing device to invalidate the superimposed image in the electronic document data and print the document image when said determination unit determines that the identification information match; said controlling unit instructing the printing device to print the document image in which the superimposed image is superimposed when said determination unit determines that the identification information do not match; said designation unit notifying a user, when a user selects the superimposed image, information indicating a printing device which can invalidate the superimposed image.