Patent ID: 7872771

Claim:
A management system including a software distribution server for delivering a printer driver to a terminal by which a user issues a printing instruction, the management system comprising: an obtaining unit configured to obtain error information based on failure of a printing process performed by a print job according to a printing instruction of the user which is generated by a printing apparatus; a setting unit configured, when the error information obtained by the obtaining unit indicates failure of the printing process on the basis of a print restriction designated by print restriction information assigned to the user, to set a print setting as a default setting of the printer driver so as to reflect the print restriction designated by the print restriction information; and a distributing unit configured to distribute the printer driver to the terminal when a new default setting is performed by the setting unit, wherein the failure of the printing process based on the print restriction designated by the print restriction information is failure caused by changing the print restriction designated by the print restriction information in accordance with a print result obtained in a printing apparatus of the user.