Patent ID: 8161297

Claim:
A printing system comprising: an information processing apparatus detachably connectable to a storage device for storing data to be printed; and a printing apparatus to which a user can connect the storage device, wherein the information processing apparatus includes: a print setting unit configured to generate print setting data indicating a first print setting which can be changed by the user at the printing apparatus and a second print setting which is set by an administrator at the information processing apparatus and cannot be changed by the user at the printing apparatus; an encryption unit configured to encrypt data to be printed and the print setting data generated by the print setting unit; and a storing unit configured to store, in the storage device connected to the information processing apparatus, the data to be printed and the print setting data encrypted by the encryption unit; and wherein the printing apparatus includes: a decryption unit configured to, if the user connects the storage device to the printing apparatus, decrypt the encrypted data to be printed and the encrypted print setting data that are stored in the storage device connected to the printing apparatus; a changing unit configured to enable the user to change the first print setting indicated by the print setting data decrypted by the decryption unit, without changing the second print setting indicated by the print setting data decrypted by the decryption unit; and a printing unit configured to print the data to be printed decrypted by the decryption unit in accordance with the first print setting which is changed by the changing unit and the second print setting which is not changed by the changing unit.