Patent ID: 7616335

Claim:
An image forming apparatus for printing data held in a WWW server on a network, said image forming apparatus comprising: a setting unit configured to set, as a periodic print condition for periodically obtaining and printing the data held in the WWW server, a day of the week or a period, according to a user operation; a determination unit configured to determine whether a day of the week or a period set by said setting unit is satisfied; an obtaining unit configured to, when said determination unit determines that the day of the week or the period is satisfied, obtain the data held in the WWW server by accessing the WWW server through the network; and a printing unit configured to convert the data obtained by said obtaining unit into printable image data, and to print the printable image data together with a date when obtaining or printing the image data, wherein said printing unit does not print the image data in a case where the data held in the WWW server has not updated from the last time that the data was obtained by the obtaining unit, and prints, instead of the image data, a message indicating that the data is not updated and a date when obtaining or printing the data last time.