Patent ID: 7099031

Claim:
A printing system using a network, comprising a server and a plurality of printing terminals connected by the network, said plurality of printing terminals each comprising: a display unit configured to receive and display information to be displayed from the server; a transmitting/receiving section configured to transmit a printing instruction and a printing data request to the server via the network, and receive the information to be displayed and printing data information from the server via the network; a printing data storage section configured to store printing data received by the transmitting/receiving section; a print processing section configured to print out the printing data; and a printing data transmission/reception processing section configured to process the printing data downloaded from the server via the transmitting/receiving section, and transmit the printing data to the print processing section, and the server comprising: a display forming section configured to generate information to be displayed on the display section of each of the printing terminals to which a printing instruction has been transmitted; a display processing section configured to process the information to be displayed, generated by the display forming section, according to a display format; a printing data storage section configured to store the printing data that is to be printed by the printing processing section of each of the printing terminals; and a transmitting/receiving section configured to receive a printing instruction from each of the printing terminals via the network, and to transmit the information to be displayed and the printing data stored in the printing data storage section to the printing terminal from which the printing instruction has been transmitted.