Patent ID: 7136179

Claim:
A printing system comprising a scanner, multiple printers, a scan server, and a printing management device receiving printing instruction information and transmitting printing information corresponding to the printing instruction information to a corresponding printer among the multiple printers, the scanner comprising: printing instruction information setting means for setting printing instruction information including specification of a desired printer among the multiple printers; image data producing means for producing image data corresponding to the printing instruction information set by the printing instruction information setting means; and transmitting means for transmitting the printing instruction information set by the printing instruction information setting means and information on a storing location of the image data produced by the image data producing means to the printing management device, the scan server storing and managing the produced image data and being separated from the scanner, and the printing management device comprising: storage management means for storing and managing the printing instruction information and the information on the storing location of the image data produced by the image data producing means; reading out means for reading out the image data from the scan server based on the information on the storing location of the image data; and transmission control means for transmitting the image data corresponding to the desired printer based on the printing instruction information stored and managed in the storage management means to the desired printer.