Patent ID: 8854672

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a connecting unit connected to a management server through a network; a printing unit configured to print data received through the network; a receiving unit configured to receive input of a name indicating the printing apparatus and user account information, the user account information being used to sign in to the management server; a processor; and a memory storing instructions, when executed by the processor, causing the printing apparatus to: determine whether a name of another printing apparatus having a same name as the name received by the receiving unit is registered in the management server, the other printing apparatus having signed into the management server with the same user account information as the printing apparatus, register the name received by the receiving unit in the management server, if the name of the other printing apparatus having the same name as the name received by the receiving unit is not registered in the management server, and not register the name received by the receiving unit in the management server, if the name of the other printing apparatus having the same name as the name received by the receiving unit is registered in the management server.