Patent ID: 8482772

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a printing unit which executes a printing in response to a print request; and a controller configured to: acquire a printing log including a plurality of history items concerning the printing request, the history items including a pre-printing history item defined before the printing is completed by the printing unit, and transmit the pre-printing history item to an external equipment before the printing is completed, and allow the printing unit to execute the printing in response to the print request before receiving a response signal indicating that recording the transmitted pre-printing history item into the external equipment is completed, wherein the pre-printing history item does not change after the printing is completed, and if the transmitted pre-printing history item is received by the external equipment, the controller transmits a post-printing history item to the external equipment after the printing is completed, and if the transmitted pre-printing history item is not received by the external equipment, the controller transmits the pre-printing history item together with the post-printing history item to the external equipment.