US Patent 7580140 Printing system

A printing system is provided capable of preventing unnecessary image information from being sent. The printing system is formed by an image processing apparatus to generate print data and an image forming apparatus to receive the print data and to execute a print. In the printing system, the image forming apparatus includes an image forming; a print mode discriminating section; a confirmation result inputting section; and a request informing section. The image processing apparatus includes a print data generating section; and a selecting and outputting section.