Patent ID: 7728998

Claim:
A printing management system, comprising: a plurality of printing apparatus; and a client terminal that is connected to the plurality of printing apparatus via a communication line, wherein the client terminal includes an information output unit that outputs print information to a portable storage medium, the print information including print subject location information for identifying a location of at least one print subject to be printed; and wherein each of the plurality of printing apparatus includes: an information acquiring unit that acquires the print information from the storage medium; a print subject receiving unit that receives the print subject from the location that is identified by the print subject location information of the acquired print information; and a print executing unit that prints the received print subject, wherein the client terminal includes a print subject encrypting unit that acquires medium identification information for identifying the storage medium from the storage medium and that encrypts the print subject so that an encrypted print subject is decrypted by using the acquired medium identification information; wherein the information acquiring unit acquires the medium identification information in addition to the print information from the storage medium; wherein each of the plurality of printing apparatus includes a first print subject decrypting unit that decrypts the print subject received by the print subject receiving unit using the medium identification information acquired by the information acquiring unit; wherein the information output unit encrypts the print information and outputs the encrypted print information to the storage medium; wherein the information output unit displays a print information decryption key for decrypting the encrypted print information on a display; and wherein each of the plurality of printing apparatus includes an input accepting unit that accepts input of the print information decryption key and a print information decrypting unit that decrypts the print information acquired by the information acquiring unit using the print information decryption key input through the input accepting unit.