Patent ID: 8705125

Claim:
A printing system provided with an image forming apparatus, and an information processing apparatus capable of giving a print instruction to the image forming apparatus, wherein the printing system accumulates set contents of print setting items at time of print instruction in the information processing apparatus as a print setting history, and at start of print setting or at time of print setting change in the information processing apparatus, searches recommendation setting candidates based on a predetermined recommendation basis from the set contents of the print setting items at the start of the print setting or at the time of the print setting change, and displays the searched recommendation setting candidates on the information processing apparatus, wherein the information processing apparatus accumulates the print setting items that have been set before in it as print setting items that have been set in past times, and does not execute a display of the recommendation setting candidates in a case where the recommendation setting candidates include the print setting items that have been set in past times, regarding at least the print setting items that have been set in past times.