Patent ID: 11972157
Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A printing control method to be performed by a printing system that includes a printing apparatus, a printing service system connected to the printing apparatus, and an information processing apparatus connected to the printing service system, the method comprising:
registering the printing apparatus and storing a print job received from the information processing apparatus, using the printing service system;
transmitting, to the printing service system, a print job of a logged-in user in which a printing apparatus selected from among at least one printing apparatus registered in the printing service system is designated, using the information processing apparatus; and
registering a user of the printing service system in association with a user of the printing apparatus, fetching a print job of a user associated with a logged-in user of the printing apparatus from among at least one print job stored in the printing service system, and executing printing, using the printing apparatus,
wherein a guest user of the printing service system is associated with a guest user of the printing apparatus,
printing is not executed using the printing apparatus for a print job the guest user for which a password has not been set, and
the registering registers capability information regarding the printing apparatus, and the capability information regarding printing apparatuses having a capability to execute a print job for which a password has been set includes information indicating the capability.