Patent ID: 7463381

Claim:
A printing system, comprising: a communicating unit, operable to receive a print document which includes a first link for specifying a display image file and a second link for specifying a print image file and is described in a markup language, and operable to receive the display image file and the print image file; a displaying unit, operable to display the print document received by the communicating unit; a printing unit, operable to print the print document received by the communicating unit; a print instruction receiving unit, operable to receive a print instruction from a user; and a markup language interpreting unit, operable to interpret the second link and to ignore the first link when the print instruction receiving unit receives the print instruction, and operable to interpret the first link and to ignore the second link when the print instruction receiving unit does not receive the print instruction, wherein the print image file and the display image file express the same image and are independent from each other, and the print image file has a larger number of pixels than the number of pixels of the display image file.