Patent ID: 8259322

Claim:
A printing system capable of collecting log information relevant to print data, comprising: a registration unit configured to register, in order to extract log information, a first extraction condition for predetermined time information and a second extraction condition not associated with the predetermined time information, wherein in said first extraction condition, the predetermined time information is associated with each item to be extracted as log information when executing the print job during a time period defined by the predetermined time information; a determination unit configured to compare the execution time of outputting the print data with a time range indicated by the predetermined time information in the first extraction condition and to determine that an item associated with the time range including the execution time is an item to be extracted as log information of the print data; an extraction unit configured to extract, as log information, first information which is related to the items determined by said determination unit and second information which is related to the items according to the second extraction condition based on drawing instructions corresponding to the print data received by a printer driver; and a save unit configured to save the log information extracted by said extraction unit in a storage unit, wherein the extraction unit is configured to extract, as the log information, the second information which is related to the items according to the second extraction condition without extracting the first information which is related to the items determined by the determination unit when the execution time of outputting the print data is not within the time range indicated by the predetermined time information in the first extraction condition, and wherein the printer driver acquires the execution time of outputting the print data used in the comparison made by said determination unit.