Patent attributes
A printing system is provided capable of executing printing with a suitable printer in accordance with the printing quality assigned by the printing information that becomes the printing objective. The proxy printing judgment unit of the printer judges whether a printer exists that shows a resolution value equal to or higher than that of the resolution assigned by the printing quality information and, in a case where such a printer does not exist in the printer list, executes the process to execute the error message display. In a case where such a printer exists in the printer list, the printer showing the highest resolution value is selected. The process is then executed for demanding creation of proxy printer data from the proxy printer data conversion unit, the created proxy printing file is sent via the network to the proxy printer, and the proxy printer executes the process to perform proxy printing.