Patent ID: 8576422

Claim:
A printer which communicates with a client terminal and a print server for providing print data generated on the basis of data acquired by an external service to the printer, the printer comprising: a reception unit adapted to receive from the client terminal a registration request for registering configuration information of the printer to the print server; a transmission unit adapted to transmit, in response to reception of the registration request by said reception unit, the configuration information of the printer managed and associated with user information input via a user authentication screen transmitted from the print server to the client terminal; and a printing unit adapted to print print data, after the print data is received, which is provided by the print server in response to a designation for causing the printer to print the data, wherein the designation for causing the printer to print the data and a designation of a print setting via a print setting screen corresponding to the printer are allowed because the user information associated with the configuration information of the printer is managed by the printer server.