Patent ID: 8599402

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a first memory that stores a registrant information item concerning a registrant who has registered the printing apparatus as a print destination with a holding apparatus, the holding apparatus holding a print data item that is to be used for printing at the print destination; a second memory that stores an instructor information item concerning an instructor who provides an instruction instructing the holding apparatus to hold a print data item that is to be used in printing performed by the printing apparatus; a first obtaining section that obtains a plurality of obtainment information items by executing a command, the command being a command to obtain an information item concerning a print data item held by the holding apparatus, using the registrant information item stored in the first memory, each of the plurality of obtainment information items being an information item that includes one of a plurality of print-data identification information items with which a plurality of print data items to be used in printing performed by the printing apparatus are identified and that is to be used to obtain one of the plurality of print data items; a second obtaining section that obtains, by executing the command using the instructor information item stored in the second memory, at least one of print-data identification information items with which at least one of print data items held by the holding apparatus in accordance with an instruction provided by the instructor is identified; and a retrieving section that retrieves, from the plurality of obtainment information items obtained by the first obtaining section, at least one of obtainment information items including the at least one of print-data identification information items obtained by the second obtaining section, one of the at least one of obtainment information items retrieved by the retrieving section being an information item to be used to obtain a print data item that is held by the holding apparatus in accordance with the instruction provided by the instructor and that is to be used in printing performed by the printing apparatus.