Patent ID: 8373876

Claim:
A document management system including a printing apparatus and a document management apparatus which manages a document, said printing apparatus comprising: a print data storage unit which stores print data; a notification unit which notifies said document management apparatus of specifying information for specifying the print data stored in said print data storage unit; and a print control unit which, upon reception of document data from said document management apparatus, prints on the basis of print data associated with the document data and stores the print data in said print data storage unit, and upon reception of the specifying information, prints on the basis of print data specified by the specifying information, and said document management apparatus comprising: a specifying data storage unit which stores the specifying information notified by said notification unit as association information associated with identification information of the document data; and a transmission control unit which, for document data having identification information not associated with the specifying information in the association information, transmits print data associated with the document data to said printing apparatus, and for document data having identification information associated with the specifying information, transmits the specifying information to said printing apparatus, wherein the association information further contains update information indicating whether or not document data identified by the identification information contained in the association information has been updated after the last print of the document data, wherein said document management apparatus stores the update information for document data which indicates the document data having been updated in a case where the document data has been updated, and wherein said transmission control unit transmits to said printing apparatus a print instruction to print the document data with print data associated to the document data corresponding to the update information indicating the document data having been updated.