Patent ID: 7398405

Claim:
An output system having an output device that performs output based on output data so that the output device performs the output after having acquired authentication comprising: an output data acquiring unit for acquiring the output data; an output data storing unit for storing the output data acquired by the output data acquiring unit in an output data memory unit; an authentication information acquiring unit for acquiring authentication information; a usage-qualification determining unit for determining a usage qualification of the output data based on the authentication information acquired by the authentication information acquiring unit; an operating state controlling unit for controlling a state of the output device; an output process completion detecting unit for detecting completion of an output process in the output device; and a power-save switching unit for switching a state of the output device into either one of an active state in which the output process to be performed by an output processing unit is enabled and a power-saving state in which a drive power during a stand-by time for the output process based on either one of a command from the operating state controlling unit and an elapsed time from a switching time which corresponds to a stand-by time for the active state until the state of the output device is switched from the active state to the power-saving state, wherein the operating state controlling unit outputs a power-save-cancel command for causing the power-saving state to be changed into the active state to the power-save switching unit after the device having the output data storing unit acquires the output data, and a transition-to-power-save command for causing the state to be changed from the active state to the power-saving state is outputted to the power-save switching unit when the output process of the output data is completed by the output process completion detecting unit.