Output system, terminal device and output method

A terminal device comprising:

• a setting management unit that receives a setting for a first function of accumulating output data at the terminal device and a setting for a second function of accumulating the output data at an information processing device connected via a network;
• a selection reception unit that receives a selection of a function to accumulate the output data, which are required to be output, the selection indicating either the first function or the second function;
• an accumulation control unit that accumulates the output data at the terminal device when the first function is selected and accumulates the output data at the information processing device when the second function is selected;
• an output data related information transmission unit that transmits output data related information related to the output data accumulated by the selected function at the terminal device or at the information processing device to the information processing device;
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• an output data transmission unit that transmits the output data accumulated at the terminal device to an output device when an acquisition request for the output data accumulated at the terminal device is sent to the terminal device based on the output data related information received by the output device from the information processing device.

An output method executed in an output system, in which a terminal device, an output device and an output control system including one or more information processing devices are connected via a network, wherein the terminal device includes a first accumulation unit that accumulates output data and the output control system includes a second accumulation unit that accumulates the output data and an output data related information retention unit that retains output data related information related to the accumulated output data accumulated at the first accumulation unit or at the second accumulation unit, the method comprising:

• a setting management step of receiving a setting for a first function of accumulating the output data at the first accumulation unit and a setting for a second function of accumulating the output data at the second accumulation unit;
• a selection reception step of receiving, at the terminal device, a selection of a function to accumulate the output data, which are required to be output, the selection indicating either the first function or the second function;
• an accumulation control step of accumulating the output data at the first accumulation unit when the first function is selected and accumulating the output data at the second accumulation unit when the second function is selected;
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• an output step of acquiring the output data accumulated at the first accumulation unit or at the second accumulation unit based on the output data related information and outputting the output data at the output device.