Patent ID: 7847957

Claim:
An image forming apparatus for performing a printing process of a Web page provided from a server apparatus, the server apparatus communicatively connected to the image forming apparatus via a network, the image forming apparatus comprising: a display unit that displays a plurality of images contained in the Web page; a selection unit that prompts a user to select either an image to be printed in a printing process of the Web page or an image not to be printed in the printing process of the Web page, from the plurality of images displayed by said display unit; and an image forming unit that performs the printing process of the Web page in response to the selection via said selection unit so that a printed Web page includes the image to be printed and does not include the image not to be printed, wherein said selection unit prompts the user to select an importance for each of the plurality of images contained in the Web page and displayed by said display unit, and wherein the image forming apparatus regards an image of selected high importance as the image to be printed and regards an image of selected low importance as the image not to be printed.