Patent ID: 7609412

Claim:
A printing system, comprising: a printing apparatus; a terminal apparatus configured to transmit information including a request to execute a specific print job and for receiving information, the terminal apparatus including inquiry means for transmitting, to the printing apparatus, an inquiry regarding authority of a registered user to use the printing apparatus, automatically upon activation of the terminal apparatus or automatically upon activation of a printing application by the registered user; notification means for notifying, in response to the inquiry, the registered user of said printing apparatus of information on the authority of the registered user to use said printing apparatus to execute any print job prior to the transmission of the request to execute the specific print job to be printed by the printing apparatus, but after the registered user has established access to use of said printing apparatus, wherein the notification means is unaware of the specific print job when notifying the registered user, and wherein the registered user is unable to set the authority of the registered user to use said printing apparatus; and a network connecting said printing apparatus, said terminal apparatus, and said notification means so that information transmission and reception in the system is performed through an electrical signal via said network.