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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2014
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Manabu Iwasaki, Yokohama, JP;
Shin Ohtake, Yokohama, JP;
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing system includes an information processing apparatus and an image forming apparatus, and the information processing apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that acquires identification information of the image forming apparatus in a printing service system from the image forming apparatus by a short-range communication; and a transmitting unit that transmits, to the printing service system, a setting request which contains the identification information of the image forming apparatus acquired by the acquiring unit and identification information of a user in the printing service system and which is a request for making a setting for permitting the user to use the image forming apparatus; and the image forming apparatus includes a holding unit that holds the identification information of the image forming apparatus in the printing service system in such a form that the identification information can be acquired by the acquiring unit of the information processing apparatus.