Patent ID: 8767239

Claim:
A printing data delivery apparatus comprising: a printing-data receiving section configured to receive printing data transmitted from a client terminal apparatus; a data storing section configured to extract print setting information from the printing data received by the printing-data receiving section and store the print setting information in association with an image in the printing data; a printing-request receiving section configured to receive a printing job request from a printing apparatus; a reuse determining section configured to perform first determination for determining whether the printing apparatus that transmits the printing job request to the printing-request receiving section is an apparatus that performs printing with erasable toner or an apparatus that performs printing with unerasable toner, perform second determination for determining, on the basis of the print setting information stored in the data storing section, whether the printing data can be printed with the erasable toner, and perform first generation for giving, on the basis of determination results of the first determination and the second determination, to the print setting information, information indicating whether it is appropriate to print the printing data in the printing apparatus that transmits the printing job request and generating a printing job; and a printing-data delivery section configured to transmit the printing job generated by the first generation of the reuse determining section to the printing apparatus that transmits the printing job request.