Patent ID: 8310701

Claim:
A print system comprising: a server device; a client-terminal device connected to the server device so that the client-terminal device and the server device can communicate with each other; and a print device connected to the client-terminal device so that the print device and the client-terminal device can communicate with each other, wherein a printer driver, installed in the server device, includes a generation unit configured to generate a print job including function-restriction information used to restrict a print function, wherein a printer driver, installed in the client-terminal device, includes a processing unit configured to process the print job in accordance with a restriction imposed on the print function, where the restriction is imposed based on the function-restriction information included in the print job transmitted from the server device, wherein the print device includes: a first print device configured to perform printing based on the print job; and a second print device configured to perform printing based on drawing-print data obtained by converting the print job, wherein the printer driver installed in the client-terminal device includes: a first printer driver configured to process the print job transmitted from the server device in its original form; and a second printer driver configured to process drawing-print data generated based on the print job transmitted from the server device, wherein the client-terminal device includes: an identification unit configured to identify a print device which becomes an output destination of the print job transmitted from the server device; a conversion unit configured to convert the print job transmitted from the server device into drawing-print data; a first output unit configured to output the print job to the first printer driver when the identification unit identifies the print device which becomes the output destination of the print job transmitted from the server device as the first print device; and a second output unit that outputs the function-restriction information included in the print job to the second printer driver and that outputs the print job to the conversion unit when the identification unit identifies the print device which becomes the output destination of the print job transmitted from the server device as the second print device, wherein a processing unit of the first printer driver processes the print job in accordance with the print-function restriction performed based on the function-restriction information included in the print job output from the first output unit, and wherein a processing unit of the second printer driver individually receives the function-restriction information output from the second output unit and the drawing-print data obtained by the conversion unit, and processes the drawing-print data in accordance with the print-function restriction performed based on the received function-restriction information.