Patent ID: 8169635

Claim:
A network printing system comprising: a Web server; and a printing apparatus that is bidirectionally communicably connected with the Web server via a network, the printing apparatus including: a printing unit that prints a Web page obtained from the Web server onto a recording medium; a memory; and a controller configured to: transmit, according to a user's request, a setting request including identification data and requesting setting data, to the Web server; store the identification data in the memory; receive a Web page, to which subscription setting data is attached, transmitted directly from the Web server corresponding to the setting request; determine whether or not the subscription setting data is attached to the Web page received from the Web server; determine whether attached data received with the subscription setting data is the same as the identification data transmitted to the Web server by comparing the attached data to the identification data stored in the memory; perform a setting of page obtaining data in accordance with the subscription setting data received from the Web server if the attached data received with the subscription setting data is determined to be the same as the identification data transmitted to the Web server; and recognize the Web page received from the Web server as a normal Web page without performing the setting of page obtaining data if the subscription setting data is not attached to the Web page, wherein the printing unit directly obtains the Web page to be printed from the Web server based on the page obtaining data preset in accordance with the subscription setting data received from the Web server; and wherein the setting request transmitted from the printing apparatus includes an address of the printing apparatus, an address of the Web server and the page obtaining data that identifies a location of the Web page and a time in which the Web page is to be printed.