Patent ID: 7675637

Claim:
A printing system comprising: an output apparatus comprising an output apparatus side input portion for receiving input of type information for identifying a type of print data and authentication information for identifying the print data, wherein the output apparatus outputs the print data together with the type information and the authentication information that are input in the output apparatus side input portion; and a printing apparatus comprising a storage portion for storing the print data input from the output apparatus, together with the authentication information, a printing apparatus side input portion for receiving input of the authentication information and a printing portion for printing onto a printing medium based on the print data, wherein the printing apparatus reads the print data corresponding to the authentication information that is input in the printing apparatus side input portion from the storage portion to supply the printing portion, while selectively performing a new hold mode process of storing the print data and the authentication information in a new area in the storage portion or an update hold mode process of overwriting print data in the storage portion that corresponds to the same authentication information with the print data that is input from the output apparatus together with the authentication information, based on the type information input from the output apparatus, wherein the type information is information for identifying whether print data is print data that is to be provided to a specific output target or print data that is to be provided to a non-specific output target, and wherein the printing apparatus performs the update hold mode process only for print data that is to be provided to a non-specific output target, based on the type information.