Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Masayuki Takao

Hiroshi Hagiwara

Munehito Kurata

Katsuhiko Shinjo

Yuuji Takayama

Takayuki Miyamoto

Hikaru Uchidate

Kazuhiko Okazawa

Masaaki Nakamura

Senju Sato

A method of controlling a printing system includes displaying, in a mobile terminal, a setting region for inputting a print setting for print data, and a search region for inputting a search condition for image forming apparatus candidates, of a plurality of image forming apparatuses, for executing printing, and searching, in a management system, for one or more image forming apparatuses, out of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, in accordance with the search condition input in the search region of the screen, and displaying display content that associates information of the image forming apparatuses with charge information for when the print data is printed by the image forming apparatuses, respectively, on a screen that includes a selection region by which it is possible to select the printing target, out of the one or more image forming apparatuses found in the searching.

Printing system and method of controlling printing system that allow a user of a mobile terminal to print to an image forming apparatus using the mobile terminal, and a service provider to charge the user for printing

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Yokohama, Japan

Masayuki Takao