Patent ID: 8064079

Claim:
A method executed by a server for communicating with a client device and a printer device through a network, the server, the client device and the printer device each being a different device from the other, and the server having form information, the method comprising: receiving a printing request from the client device; determining whether the printer device has the form information that the server has and that corresponds to the printing request; transmitting, in a case where it is determined that the printer device does not have the form information that the server has and that corresponds to the printing request, print data including the form information and original information to be printed to the printer device without going through the client device, in accordance with the received printing request; and transmitting, to the client device, address information for causing the client device to acquire, from the printer device without going through the server, a Web page provided by the printer device, the Web page indicating a state of processing of the transmitted print data, wherein the client device acquires the Web page from the printer device in accordance with the address information and displays the state of processing of the print data in accordance with the Web page, wherein the print data including the form information and the original information is used in generating image data for printing by the printer device.