Patent ID: 8570563

Claim:
A printing system comprising: an information processing apparatus that instructs print processing according to settings of a printer driver, the information processing apparatus being connected to a network; a printing apparatus connected to the network; and a print control apparatus that controls the printing apparatus, the print control apparatus being connected to the network, wherein the printing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire apparatus information required to specify the print control apparatus, wherein the print control apparatus includes a second acquisition unit configured to acquire apparatus information required to specify the printing apparatus, wherein the information processing apparatus includes a third acquisition unit configured to selectively acquire the apparatus information of the print control apparatus from the printing apparatus or the apparatus information of the printing apparatus from the print control apparatus, and wherein the third acquisition unit: determines, with reference to a database that stores data to be set in the printer driver and information indicating an acquisition source of the data in association with each other, whether the data to be set in the printer driver is to be acquired from the printing apparatus or the print control apparatus, if the data is determined to be acquired from the printing apparatus, acquires the data from the printing apparatus, and, if the data is determined to be acquired from the print control apparatus, acquires the data from the print control apparatus, by using the acquired apparatus information, and reflects the acquired data in the settings of the printer driver.