Patent ID: 7583396

Claim:
A printing system comprising: a print control device; a network interface device for connecting the print control device to a network; an information processing device that is connected to the print control device through an interface different from the network interface device; an input unit for inputting a print instruction for printing configuration information of the network interface device according to a user operation; an acquisition unit, arranged in the print control device, for acquiring the configuration information representing a configuration of the network interface device from the network interface device when the print instruction is input; a transmitting unit for transmitting the configuration information acquired by the acquisition unit from the print control device to the information processing device through the interface different from the network interface device; a generating unit, arranged in the information processing device, for generating print data representing the configuration information of the network interface device based on the configuration information transmitted from the transmitting unit; and a printing unit, arranged in the print control device, for printing the print data generated by the generating unit.