FIELD: information technology.
SUBSTANCE: device includes: storage apparatus for storing task history information relating to an executed task; output apparatus which, when executing a task, has copy restriction information of the output product which has a copy restriction code which indicates that copying the output product is restricted; display apparatus for displaying a list of previously executed tasks based on task history information stored in the storage device; selection apparatus for selecting at least one task from the list of tasks displayed on the display apparatus; determination apparatus for determining whether the task selected by the selection apparatus has said copy restriction information; and control apparatus for restriction if the determination apparatus determines that the task selected by the selection apparatus has said copy restriction information, for said output apparatus for outputting the output product in accordance with the selected task.
EFFECT: high printing safety owing to increase in the number of output products without any restriction, without loss of convenience of the repeated output function.
8 cl, 13 dwg
