Patent ID: 7701599

Claim:
A printing system having at least one printer, comprising: a document supervisory client configured to generate print condition settings, the print condition settings including a first setting including first information and a second setting including second information; and a document supervisory server configured to control printing based upon a printing request from the document supervisory client in accordance with the first and second settings, wherein said document supervisory client is configured to make a query to the document supervisory server via a network inquiring whether the first and second settings are permissible, in combination, in a printer, and said document supervisory server is further configured to return advisability of the first and second settings to the document supervisory client, said document supervisory server is configured to change one of the first and second settings to a third setting including third information and to send the third setting and an unchanged one of the first and second settings to the document supervisory client upon determining that the first and second settings are impermissible in combination with each other, and the document supervisory server is further configured to determine which of the first and second settings to change based on a priority order previously stored in the supervisory server, said document supervisory client is configured to generate a user interface based on the third setting and the unchanged one of the first and second settings, and the user interface displays print conditions that are impermissible with a visual indication that identifies the print conditions as impermissible, the one of the first and second settings changed by said document supervisory server is a setting that was set by the document supervisory client, and the first, second, and third information each specify at least one of a function of the at least one printer or a characteristic of a medium on which the printer operates.