Patent ID: 7760381
Filing Date: 2010-07-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing system, comprising: a printer; a client device that requests the printer to print via a network; and a file server that is provided on the network, wherein the printer comprises: a print data receiving unit that receives print data transmitted from the client device via the network; a print processing unit that effects print processing on the basis of the print data received by the print data receiving unit; a detecting unit that detects whether the print processing by the print processing unit has been completed properly; a transfer unit that, when the detecting unit detects a fact that the print processing has not been completed properly, transmits print data for which the print processing has not been completed properly to the file server on the network to store the print data therein; and a mail transmitting unit that transmits by an email to the client device storage position information of the print data transferred by the transfer unit in the file server, and a cause of the fact that the print processing has not been completed properly, and the client device comprises: a mail receiving unit that receives an email transmitted by the mail transmitting unit from the printer; and a print data acquisition unit that obtains the print data from the file server on the basis of the storage position information included in the email received by the mail receiving unit.