Patent ID: 8760699

Claim:
A printing control method executed in a printing system comprising a terminal, a server, and a printing apparatus, the method comprising: transmitting, by the terminal, a first e-mail to which a file to be printed is attached to the server; receiving, by the server, the first e-mail; temporarily saving, by the server, the file attached to the first e-mail; transmitting, by the server, a second e-mail for confirming a user to the terminal; receiving, by the terminal, the second e-mail; returning, by the terminal, information on the user to the server in response to the second e-mail; acquiring, by the server, the information on the user; converting, by the server, the temporarily saved file into a file for printing and registering the converted file in the server after the information on the user is acquired; and transmitting, by the server, the registered file to the printing apparatus to cause the printing apparatus to perform printing of the registered file.