Patent ID: 7847962
Filing Date: 2010-12-07
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A printing system using an e-mail to request printing, comprising: a printer; a client terminal that makes a printing request to the printer; and a print server that controls printing in the printer according to the printing request from the client terminal, wherein: the client terminal makes the printing request by writing print data related to the printing request in a main body or an attachment file of an e-mail and sending the e-mail to the print server, and the print server comprises: a print instruction unit that performs a print instruction by sending the print data written in the e-mail received from the client terminal to the printer; a printout completion notice receiving unit that receives a printout completion notice of the print data according to the print instruction by the print instruction unit from the printer; a reception history storage unit that stores a reception history of an e-mail related to the printout completion notice received by the printout completion notice receiving unit; a display that displays, after the printout completion notice receiving unit receives the printout completion notice, a list of the reception history stored in the reception history storage unit according to a user's operation; a confirmation notice generation unit that generates a confirmation notice corresponding to a reception history when the reception history is selected by a user's operation from the list of the reception history displayed on the display, and that generates no confirmation notice when the reception history is not selected; and a confirmation notice sending unit that sends the confirmation notice generated by the confirmation notice generation unit to a confirmation notice destination to which the confirmation notice related to the printing request is to be sent, wherein when the confirmation notice is sent to the confirmation notice destination, the state of the reception history is updated from an unreceived state to a received state, the received state indicating that the print data has been normally printed on a document and that the printed document has been checked by the user.