Patent ID: 9563387
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04N

Claim:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a memory; a processor; a network I/F that receives a print job; a printer that executes printing based on the received print job; a first identification unit configured to identify a printing protocol of the received print job; a second identification unit configured to identify a transmission source application of the received print job; and a counting unit configured to count a number of times of printing separately for each printing protocol, wherein the counting unit counts, in a case where the printing protocol identified by the first identification unit is a specific printing protocol, the number of times of printing further separately for each transmission source application of the received print job, wherein the second identification unit identifies one transmission source application from at least two transmission source applications having the same printing protocol, based on a format of image data associated with the received print job so that the counting unit is configured to distinguish between the number of times of printing for the at least two transmission source applications having the same printing protocol, and wherein the first identification unit, the second identification unit and the counting unit are implemented at least in part by the processor executing at least one program recorded on the memory.