Patent ID: 8368911

Claim:
A printing system, comprising: a request unit, configured to request to transmit information of a position of the paper clearance adjusting lever currently stored in a printer from the printer; a reception unit, configured to receive the information of the position of the paper clearance adjusting lever transmitted from the printer in response to the request; a determination unit, configured to determine whether or not the position of the paper clearance adjusting lever indicated by the information received by said reception unit is appropriate to a sheet designated in print data to be generated; a processing unit, configured to generate the print data and transmit it if it is determined that the position of the paper clearance adjusting lever indicated by the information received by said reception unit is appropriate to the sheet designated in the print data to be generated, and to output a warning if it is determined that the position of the paper clearance adjusting lever indicated by the information received by said reception unit is inappropriate to the sheet designated in the print data to be generated; a decision unit, configured to decide a position of the paper clearance adjusting lever based on the sheet designated by the print data transmitted by said processing unit; a storage unit, configured to store information of the position of the paper clearance adjusting lever decided by said decision unit in order to transmit information of the position of the paper clearance adjusting lever in response to the request made by said request unit; and a print unit, configured to perform printing based on the print data transmitted by said processing unit.