Printing system, printing apparatus, and printing program

摘要

A printing system includes: a printing apparatus printing an image acquired from a providing apparatus which provides a service for sharing the image; and a communication apparatus. The printing apparatus includes: a first acquiring unit configured to acquire service information; a first transmitting unit configured to transmit the service information; a first receiving unit configured to receive print setting information; a second transmitting unit configured to transmit a command to request the image; a second receiving unit configured to receive the image from the providing apparatus; and a first printing unit configured to print the image on the basis of the print setting information, and the communication apparatus includes: a third receiving unit configured to receive the service information; a second acquiring unit configured to acquire the print setting information corresponding to the service information; and a third transmitting unit configured to transmit the print setting information.

主权项

1. A printing system comprising:
a printing apparatus configured to print an image acquired from providing servers managed by image sharing service providers, each of which provides an image sharing service for storing images in a database and sharing the images, a format of the images provided by the image sharing service providers varying depending on the image sharing services; a communication apparatus communicable with the printing apparatus through the Internet; and a memory configured to store a first table in which plural pieces of image sharing service information and plural pieces of print setting information are associated with each other, wherein each of the plural pieces of image sharing service information specifies an image sharing service and each of the plural pieces of print setting information specifies print settings based on the format of the images provided by the associated image sharing service; wherein the printing apparatus includes:
a first network connection communicable with the communication apparatus through the Internet; anda first controller configured to:
acquire the image sharing service information for a particular image sharing service;transmit the acquired image sharing service information to the communication apparatus through the Internet;receive the print setting information associated with the particular image sharing service from the communication apparatus through the Internet after transmitting the image sharing service information;transmit a command to request the image to be printed to the providing server through the Internet;receive the image from the providing server through the Internet after transmitting the command; andprint the received image on the basis of the received print setting information, and wherein the communication apparatus includes:
a second network connection communicable with the printing apparatus through the Internet;a second controller configured to:
receive the image sharing service information transmitted from the printing apparatus through the Internet;acquire the print setting information associated with the particular image sharing service in the first table stored in the memory; andtransmit the acquired print setting information to the printing apparatus.