Patent ID: 8976389
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus capable of communicating with an information processing apparatus and an image processing apparatus, the printing apparatus comprising: a reception unit configured to receive a request for information of the printing apparatus from the information processing apparatus storing an image; a setting unit configured to set whether to include predetermined information in a response to the received request, wherein the predetermined information is used for determining the printing apparatus to which the information processing apparatus transmits the stored image via the image processing apparatus; a transmission unit configured to transmit the response including the predetermined information to the information processing apparatus in response to the received request, if the setting by the setting unit is a setting to include, in the response to the received request, the predetermined information; and a printing unit configured to acquire the image that the information processing apparatus has transmitted via the image processing apparatus based on the determination using the predetermined information, and to print the acquired image, wherein, after a certain time period has elapsed since the performing of the setting to include the predetermined information in the response to the received request, the setting unit changes the setting to a setting not to include, in the response to the received request, the predetermined information.