Patent ID: 7907291

Claim:
An image supply device for supplying image data to a printing device by directly communicating with the printing device, the image supply device comprising: a communication unit configured to communicate with the printing device with predetermined communication protocol; an obtaining unit configured to obtain version information related to version of the communication protocol starting communication by the communication unit; a display unit configured to display a print setting screen; a determining unit configured to determine whether the image data should be rotated, based on the version of the communication protocol obtained by the obtaining unit and the printing specification set by the print setting screen; a conversion unit configured to rotate image data of an image file to be printed, in a case that the image data is determined to be rotated by the determining unit; a transmission unit configured to transmit the image data rotated by the conversion unit to the printing device in accordance with a data request from the printing device; and a job transmission unit configured to transmit, to the printing device, a print job including information which specifies an image to be printed, wherein, in accordance with the data request based on the print job, the transmission unit does not transmit the requested image data but transmits the image data rotated by the conversion unit.