Patent ID: 8199355

Claim:
A document management method of a print control device connectable via a network to an information processing device that sends an instruction and document to the print control device, the method comprising the steps of: detecting a non-native document stored in a detachable memory connected to the print control device, the detachable memory storing native and non-native documents, native documents being printable in the print control device and non-native documents being documents not printable in the print control device; and displaying information related to at least one document, including the detected non-native document, on a display of the print control device, wherein the stored documents include a plurality of types of non-native documents and a plurality of types of native documents, wherein the displayed information related to each non-native document has a first appearance and the displayed information related to each native document has a second appearance different from the first appearance so as to differentiate between non-native and native documents, and wherein the first appearance is common to the plurality of non-native document types and the second appearance is common to the plurality of native document types.