Patent ID: 7970866

Claim:
A print system in which an application server holding an application program, a client computer, and a printer exist in a same local area network and are connected through a network including a fire wall and the Internet to the application server, the application program being activated in the application server and creating application data on the application server by a user's operation from the client computer, the client computer comprising: an input unit, which receives a print request from the user for the application data that is created by the application program on the application server; an informing unit which informs printer driver information to the application server; and a transmitter, which transmits client information and the print request through the network to the application server; the application server comprising: a register which registers the printer driver information informed by the informing unit so as to relate the printer driver information to the client information; an acquisition device, which upon receipt of the print request acquires a printer driver corresponding to the printer driver information for the received client information externally of the application server; and a data processor, which activates the printer driver acquired by the acquisition device in the application server, creates print data for the application data with the printer driver and sends the print data to the client computer or directly to the printer, in response to the print request; and the printer comprising: an input device, which receives the print data sent from the application server.