The printing device registers setting information pertaining to printing and sends identification information of the registered setting information registered to an information processing device in response to an obtainment request from the information processing device. When a print job including the identification information is received from the information processing device, the printing device executes the print job having applied the setting information corresponding to the identification information to print settings of the print job.

An information processing apparatus communicating with a server system capable of converting received print data into print data conforming to a print apparatus used for printing the received print data and transmits the converted print data to the printing apparatus, the information processing apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate print data conforming to the print apparatus used for printing, a transmission unit configured to transmit the print data generated by the generation unit to the server system, and an instruction unit configured to instruct the server system to transmit the received print data to the print apparatus without converting the received print data.

Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores computer-executable instructions which cause, when executed, a controller of an information processing device to obtain a list of printers registered with an operating system installed to the information processing device, obtaining a list of print programs installed in the information processing device, store identifiers of the list of printers and the list of the print programs as obtained in a memory, detect whether a first user operation is input through an inputting device of the information processing device, when input of the first user operation is detected, extract one of the printers in the list of printers and print programs in the list of print programs stored in the memory and setting the extracted one of the printers and the print programs to the output destination, and when the output destination is one of the print programs, start the print program.

An information processing device is configured to execute a management program and a print server program. The management program determines whether a non-compliant printer is connected to the information processing device, determines whether a print server program is running when the non-compliant printer is connected, starts up the print server program when the print server program is not running, and registers a print server configured by the print server program with an operating system. The print server program receives a print job designating the print server as an output destination, obtains individual print data which is printable by the non-compliant printer, and transmits the obtained individual print data to the non-compliant printer.

A printing system includes an acquirer, a comparator, a calculator, and an allocator. The acquirer acquires the number of media printed by a first printing device installed at a first location. The comparator compares the number of printed media acquired by the acquirer with the number of media specified based on a billing amount. The calculator calculates a first number of printable media of the first printing device based on the comparison by the comparator. The allocator allocates at least a part of the first number of printable media calculated by the calculator as a second number of printable media to a second printing device installed at a second location. The second printing device can perform printing as a billing target based on the second number of printable media.

An image forming apparatus includes a processor configured to: obtain a print job in which setting-tray information is registered, the setting-tray information describing a tray and being specified according to a configuration of a second image forming apparatus, the second image forming apparatus being different from the image forming apparatus; and execute the print job by applying tray information, the tray information corresponding to the setting-tray information of the print job and according with a configuration of the image forming apparatus.

A method for an information processing apparatus includes searching for a printer, determining whether a printer detected by the searching is capable of executing a process according to a predetermined specification conforming to Internet Printing Protocol, and setting the information processing apparatus so as to generate a print job to be sent to the detected printer according to the predetermined specification, based on a determination that the detected printer is capable of executing the process according to the predetermined specification. Downloading of software to be used for generating a print job to be sent to the detected printer is facilitated, based on a determination that the detected printer is not capable of executing the process according to the predetermined specification.

An information processing device includes a processor configured to: transmit, to a local system, a printing screen transmission request including a list of printing devices usable by a user installed outside the local system; display a printing screen including a list of the printing devices and a list of files saved in the local system, the printing screen being received from the local system in response to the printing screen transmission request; and cause a printing device selected by the user from the printing screen to print a file selected by the user from the printing screen.

A job management apparatus includes a processor configured to: attach an order identifier, linked to a production order, to a job that has been created in response to the production order of a printed material; transmit the job and the order identifier attached to the job to one of printing systems to perform the job; when one of the order identifiers is specified and a reproduction order of the printed material corresponding to the specified order identifier is received, make an inquiry to the printing systems as to whether the printing systems have the job with the specified order identifier attached; and in response to a reply from each of the printing systems responding to the inquiry, detect a printing system storing the job corresponding to the reproduction order.

A management server includes: a service negotiator configured to identify a providable service which is able to be provided by each of a plurality of electronic apparatuses in correlation with the corresponding electronic apparatus; a service notifier configured to return a service discovery response including service identification information to a client terminal in response to reception of a service discovery request from the client terminal; and an electronic apparatus controller configured to stop return from the plurality of electronic apparatuses by transmitting a stop command for instructing to stop return of a response in response to the service discovery request from the client terminal to the plurality of electronic apparatuses and to transmit the service execution request to the corresponding electronic apparatus in response to reception of the service execution request for instructing to execute a service providable by one of the plurality of electronic apparatuses from the client terminal.