US Patent 7675640 Network printing system, printing terminal and printing method

In a network printing system, initial print setting information and save-mode print setting information are preparatorily set as print setting information in a server. In response to a request from PC1 or PC2, the server sends the save-mode print setting information as the “print setting information” if the total number of print copies exceeds a predetermined number. If a user does not agree with the save-mode print setting information displayed on the PC1 or PC2, the user operates a button “no” in a confirmation dialogue and then resets the print setting information. A printing apparatus performs save-mode printing or normal printing in accordance with the set or reset print setting information. Therefore, an administrator of the network printing system has only to set the initial print setting information and the save-mode print setting information in the server. Thus, the network printing system allows print setting to be simply achieved.