To strengthen security, and to suppress any useless printout by making it possible to set the authority of the validity/invalidity of the use of the various functions of a multi-functional equipment for every user.

A multi-functional equipment 300 receives print restriction information from an authentication server 400 based on user identification information, and acquires the print setting information of print data from a print management server 500, and when the acquired print setting information of the print data does not satisfy the print restriction information, the multi-functional equipment 300 changes the print setting information according to the print restriction information, and transmits the changed print setting information to the print management server 500 to change the print setting information of the print data stored in a print server 200, and acquires and prints out the print data stored in the print server 200.