Capability information notification method of the terminal device and the terminal device

A terminal device to be used in a system where sets of transmission document information are transferred via a network between terminal devices which are grouped together in a plurality of different groups, the terminal device comprising a document information storage unit which stores document information which is made up of a plurality of document elements which are to be transmitted, a terminal device arrangement information storage unit for storing terminal device arrangement information made up of each group name, a type of each terminal device provided at each group and an address of each terminal device, a terminal device capability information control unit for controlling terminal device capability information which shows what kinds of document information can be outputted by each type of terminal device, a transmission document information creation unit for selecting terminal devices based on the group name of a group to be transmitted to and the terminal device arrangement information and for creating sets of the transmission document information from the document information to be transmitted in accordance with the terminal device capability information and a transmission unit for transmitting the created sets of transmission document information to the selected terminal devices.