Patent ID: 7857209

Claim:
A print system comprising: a holding unit adapted to hold information regarding a plurality of extraction formats of print log information that are set in correspondence with each module name of a plurality of print application programs in advance; an acquiring unit adapted to acquire a module name of a print application program that is used when generating a printout printed by a printing apparatus; a reading unit adapted to read from said holding unit an extraction format of the plurality of extraction formats, the read extraction format corresponding to the module name that is acquired by said acquiring unit; an extracting unit adapted to extract print log information from contents of the printout in accordance with the read extraction format that is read by said reading unit; a storing unit adapted to store, in a storage apparatus, the extracted print log information that is extracted by said extracting unit; and a searching and reading unit adapted to enable a user to search and read the extracted print log information that is stored in said storage apparatus.