Patent ID: 8885196

Claim:
A portable terminal for transmitting printing data to a printing apparatus, the portable terminal comprising: a printing-data generating unit for generating the printing data; a display unit for displaying an editing screen for editing the printing data and a preview display screen for previewing the printing data after editing the printing data on the editing screen; a detecting unit for detecting movement of a main body of the portable terminal; and a printing-data transmitting unit for transmitting the printing data to the printing apparatus that transmits the printing data to the printing apparatus when at least one of: movement is detected by the detecting unit after the printing data generation, and a print button is selected after the printing data generation, wherein the printing-data transmitting unit transmits the printing data to the printing apparatus in response to the detecting unit detecting the movement while the preview display screen is displayed, and the printing-data transmitting unit does not transmit the printing data to the printing apparatus in response to the detecting unit detecting the movement while the editing screen is displayed.