Information processing system, server, and information processing method which prints using guest account information

Abstract

An information processing system includes a print server with first circuitry and a memory and a printing apparatus with second circuitry. The first circuitry generates guest account information including a user ID of a guest terminal, an available print count, and an apparatus ID of the printing apparatus, and receives a print file from the terminal. The memory stores the account information and the print file. The second circuitry receives authentication information from the terminal, acquires the account information and the corresponding print file from the server based on the user ID and the apparatus ID, controls execution of printing with the acquired print file, updates the print count in the acquired account information based on the printing, and transmits the updated print count to the server. Based on the updated print count, the first circuitry updates the print count in the stored account information of the terminal.