Patent ID: 8203741

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a communication interface unit configured to communicate with an image supply device; an authentication unit configured to: (i) receive authentication information indicating being capable of direct printing, of the image supply device, from the image supply device after communication is initiated between the printing apparatus and the image supply device via the communication interface unit, wherein in the direct printing, the image supply device directly transmits a print job to the printing apparatus to cause the printing apparatus to print an image in accordance with the print job, and (ii) send authentication information indicating being capable of the direct printing, of the printing apparatus, to the image supply device; a transmission unit configured to transmit capability information of the printing apparatus to the image supply device in response to a request for requesting capability information of the printing apparatus from the image supply device after the authentication unit has sent the authentication information of the printing apparatus, wherein the capability information is able to be referred at the image supply device in order to set a print condition described in a print job that is transmitted from the image supply device; a print control unit configured to print an image in accordance with the print condition set in a print job received from the image supply device after the transmission unit transmits the capability information; and a control unit configured to: (i) shift a state of the printing apparatus to a ready state in which the printing apparatus is able to receive a print job, in a case that the authentication unit has received the authentication information of the image supply device and has sent the authentication information of the printing apparatus to the image supply device and the request for requesting the capability information from the image supply device is not received, and (ii) when a print job is received from the image supply device in the ready state, print an image in accordance with image designation data for designating an image to be printed in the print job and a default print condition of the printing apparatus.