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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2014
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Hajime Ohno, Fujisawa, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A print service server of a printing system manages information included in the print job to be transmitted and that is specific information required for specifying a user ID, and a user ID that has been registered with the print service server, an image processing apparatus transmits, to a counting server, the number of printed sheets used upon printing based on the print job and the specific information included in the print job, and the counting server queries the managing unit based on the transmitted specific information of the user ID that has been registered with the print service server and saves a user corresponding to the user ID acquired as the result of the query by the query unit, and the number of printed sheets transmitted by the transmission unit by associating them with each other.