Patent ID: 7936473

Claim:
A printing apparatus for printing data acquired through digital broadcasting, the printing apparatus capable of being connected to a receiving apparatus through a network, the receiving apparatus receiving the data transmitted through the digital broadcasting and having a data storage device storing the received data, the printing apparatus comprising: a user interface which is operated by a user of the printing apparatus; a list acquisition device which acquires a print content list through the network in accordance with an operation on the user interface, the print content list being stored in the data storage device; a list display device which displays the print content list acquired by the list acquisition device; and a print data acquisition device with which a print object content to be printed is selected from the print content list displayed on the list display device, and which acquires, through the network, print data of the print object content from the data storage device in accordance with an operation on the user interface, wherein the printing apparatus prints the print data acquired by the print data acquisition device; and the printing apparatus is authenticated by the receiving apparatus to restrict use of print contents requiring fees to control charges for the print contents requiring fees.