Printing apparatus and wireless communication method to implement charging control for printing a print data transmitted by a communication terminal

摘要

This invention provides a technique capable of appropriately executing, for a communication terminal apparatus, charging processing for printing. When a printing apparatus detects a communication terminal, if the ID information of the communication terminal matches ID information corresponding to a communication terminal which has transmitted print target data, the printing apparatus executes charging processing for printing of the print target data, and print processing for the print target data.

主权项

1. A printing control apparatus for controlling a first near field communication (NFC) unit which performs communication via near field communication (NFC), comprising:
a memory configured to store a program; a processor configured to execute the program stored in the memory, wherein the processor receives a first ID information for specifying a communication terminal or a user of the communication terminal, from a second near field communication (NFC) unit of the communication terminal by the first NFC unit at a first time, and receives first print target data from the communication terminal based on the NFC by the first NFC unit, and wherein the processor determines, in a case where the second NFC unit of the communication terminal corresponding to second ID information is detected by the first NFC unit at a second time when the first ID information has been received and charging processing for a printing of the first print target data have not been performed, whether the communication terminal requests either another printing of a second print target data or the charging processing, based on whether the second NFC unit of the communication terminal serves as an initiator of the NFC or a target of the NFC, and wherein the processor performs the charging processing using the first NFC unit, after a predetermined image processing for the first print target data and before the printing of the first print target data, and performs the printing of the first print target data for which the predetermined image processing has been executed in response to completion of the charging processing, on a condition that it is determined that the communication terminal requests the charging processing and the second ID information received by the detection at the second time corresponds to the first ID information.