Patent ID: 8223372

Claim:
A printing system comprising: a terminal configured to be connected to a search engine; and an image forming apparatus configured to be connected to the search engine and the terminal, and to have a printer, the terminal including a conditional expression accepting portion accepting a conditional expression based on which a search is performed, a first result receiving portion causing the search engine to search for a web page based on the conditional expression accepted by the conditional expression accepting portion, and receiving, from the search engine, a search result page indicating one or more hit pages that are web pages searched by the search engine, a first result displaying portion displaying the search result page received by the first result receiving portion, a first hit page obtaining portion obtaining a hit page selected from among the hit pages indicated in the search result page received by the first result receiving portion, and a print command portion issuing, to the image forming apparatus, a command to print the hit page obtained by the first hit page obtaining portion, and sending the conditional expression accepted by the conditional expression accepting portion to the image forming apparatus, and the image forming apparatus including a first print controller causing the printer to print the hit page obtained by the terminal in accordance with the command issued from the terminal, a second result receiving portion causing the search engine to search for a web page based on the conditional expression sent from the terminal, and receiving the search result page from the search engine, a second result displaying portion displaying the search result page received by the second result receiving portion, a second hit page obtaining portion obtaining a hit page selected from among the hit pages indicated in the search result page received by the second result receiving portion, and a second print controller causing the printer to print the hit page obtained by the second hit page obtaining portion.