Patent ID: 8135998

Claim:
A printer, comprising: a monitor; a receiving unit constructed to receive configuration information to be set for the printer from a sending device; a determination unit constructed to, if an event of receiving the configuration information is detected, determine whether or not the printer is executing a job; a recording unit constructed to record the configuration information in a predetermined storage area if it is determined by the determination unit that the printer is not executing a job; a control unit constructed to control the recording unit so as not to execute recording the configuration information in the predetermined storage area, and to generate history information indicating that the configuration information has not been recorded in the predetermined storage area, if it is determined by the determination unit that the printer is executing a job; and a display unit constructed to display the history information generated by the control unit on the monitor of the printer such that various users of the printer can confirm that the configuration information has not been recorded in the predetermined storage area, wherein the display unit displays information indicating a reason why the recording of the configuration information in the predetermined storage area has not been executed.