Patent ID: 7460261

Claim:
A printing system designed to operate on a network, comprising: a printing terminal connected to the network and printing a print-out document; a communication terminal connected to the network and transmitting a request of the print-out document; a WWW server connected to the network and communicating with the communication terminal via the network; a printing management device connected to the network and transmitting a printing-related data to the communication terminal through the WWW server; and a document converter connected to the network and converting the print-out document into a printable data for the printing terminal when the print-out document is not in a printable form that is appropriate for the printing terminal, wherein the printing management device receives a document specific data identifying the print-out document from the communication terminal and transmits the document specific data to the document converter, the printing management device transmits a first reservation identification data identifying a printing reservation of the print-out document to both the communication terminal and the printing terminal, and the printing terminal performs printing of the print-out document with the printable data when a second reservation identification data received from the communication terminal at the printing terminal matches the first reservation identification data received from the printing management device at the printing terminal.