Patent ID: 7333225

Claim:
A printing system, comprising: a terminal unit that provides print data; a printing unit that is connected with the terminal unit and prints the print data provided from the terminal unit; an information data creating unit that allows a user to create information data using the terminal unit, wherein the information data is text data typed in by the user and is a description about contents created by the user; an informing unit that informs a user or another user of the information data which corresponds with the print data when the print data with which the information data corresponds is being processed to be printed at the printing unit; an adjusting unit which adjusts an order in which a plurality of the print data is printed by the printing unit; a transmitting terminal device and a printing apparatus that is connected with the transmitting terminal device, the transmitting terminal device including: the terminal unit; the information data creating unit; a print data transmitting unit that transmits the print data to the printing apparatus; and an information data transmitting unit that transmits the information data corresponding with the print data to the printing apparatus; and the printing apparatus including: the printing unit; the informing unit; the adjusting unit; a print data receiving unit that receives the print data transmitted via the print data transmitting unit; and an information data receiving unit that receives the information data transmitted via the information data transmitting unit, wherein the information data and the print data are transmitted to a same port number while the connection between the transmitting terminal device and the printing apparatus is established.