Patent ID: 8693018

Claim:
A printing system having a print service and an image forming apparatus including a web browser capable of displaying a screen provided from a web server, wherein the print service, the image forming apparatus, and the web server are connected with each other via a network, the printing system comprising: the web server, wherein the web server includes: a print instruction unit configured to transmit, to the print service via the network, a print instruction according to a print request received from the image forming apparatus, a print status acquisition unit configured to acquire, via the network, a print status of print data that corresponds to the print instruction managed by the print service, a screen generation unit configured to generate a job information screen that corresponds to the print status acquired by the print status acquisition unit, and a screen transmission unit configured to transmit, to the web browser via the network, the job information screen generated by the screen generation unit, wherein the print status acquisition unit acquires the print status of print data that corresponds to the print instruction managed by the print service based on information, wherein that information was notified, in response to a change in the print status of the print data, from an image forming apparatus that acquires the print data from the print service and executes printing based on the acquired print data.