Patent ID: 8705106

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a print section that performs printing on the basis of print data; a registering section that registers in advance an information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus creating and transmitting print data in response to a print instruction from a user, and storing print data that has not been received by a transmission destination in a memory; a determination section that determines whether or not the print data that has not been received by the printing apparatus is stored in the registered information processing apparatus, when the printing apparatus returns back to a state of being capable of receiving print data from a state of being not capable of receiving print data; a request section that requests the information processing apparatus, in which the print data is determined to be stored, to transmit the stored print data; a controller that controls the print section to perform printing on the basis of the print data transmitted in response to the request from the request section, when the print data is received; and an acceptance section that accepts apparatus identification information for identifying the registered information processing apparatus or user identification information for identifying a user using the registered information processing apparatus, wherein the determination section determines whether or not the print data that has not been received by the printing apparatus is stored in an information processing apparatus identified by the apparatus identification information accepted by the acceptance section or in an information processing apparatus used by a user identified by the user identification information accepted by the acceptance section, when the printing apparatus returns back to the state of being capable of receiving the print data from the state of being not capable of receiving the print data.