Patent ID: 7406611

Claim:
An output system having a network device for performing an output depending upon output data, the network device being allowed to perform an outputting upon obtaining an authentication, the output system comprising: an output data storage section that stores the output data; an output data saving section that saves the output data to the output data storage section; an authentication information acquiring section that acquires authentication information; a usability determining section that determines a usability of the output data depending on authentication information acquired at the authentication information acquiring section; a power control section for controlling a power to the network device; an output data transmitting section that sends, to the network device, output data which the usability determining section determined usable of among the output data of the output data storage section; and a power-save switchover section that switches over between an operating status as a power-consuming status allowing the output at the network device and a power-save status as a status lower in consuming power than the operating status; the power control section forwarding, to the power-save switchover section, a power-save cancel command for transitioning into the operating status after the usability determining section determines the output data to be usable and before the output data transmitting section sends the output data.