Patent ID: 8559027

Claim:
An information processing device which requests a printer connected thereto via a network to carry out a printing process, comprising: a storage section configured to store therein a result of aggregate calculation of items of information on printing processes which the information processing device has requested the printer to carry out; a determination section configured to determine whether or not the number of printing sheets used in printing processes having been requested by the information processing device during a predetermined determination period is more than a reference level based on the result of aggregate calculation stored in the storage section when the information processing device receives entry of an instruction to print to be forwarded to the printer; and a display control section configured to cause a display to provide a first screen informing a user of a printing sheet saving rate in the printing processes having been requested by the information processing device during the predetermined determination period in response to a determination by the determination section that the number of printing sheets used is not more than the reference level, while causing the display to provide a second screen informing the user of the number of printing sheets used in the printing processes having been requested by the information processing device during the predetermined determination period in response to a determination by the determination section that the number of printing sheets used is more than the reference level.