Abstract: A control device includes a first memory, a receiving unit, a second memory, an acquiring unit, and an output unit. The first memory stores therein a specific directory and an acquisition destination of data in an external storage device on a network in association with each other. The receiving unit receives, from a connected information processing device, an acquisition request of the data with respect to a directory. The second memory stores history of the acquisition-requested directory. The acquiring unit performs data acquisition from the acquisition destination associated with the directory specified by the acquisition request when the history stored in the second memory satisfies a predetermined condition. The output unit outputs the acquired data to the information processing device as a response to the acquisition request.

Abstract: A client subsystem is provided for use with a network printing system including a client communicating with one or more of a plurality of print-related devices by way of a network connection. An electronic document is developed at the client and placed into a printable format with a print driver. The electronic document in the printable format includes a set of attributes respectively corresponding with a set of attribute values, the set of attribute values controlling a manner in which the electronic document is to be processed at a selected one of the plurality of print-related devices. The client subsystem includes a document routing system, communicating with the print driver and a spooler, for facilitating transmission of the electronic document in the printable format from the print driver to the spooler.