PRINTER AND CONTROL METHOD FOR THE SAME

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a network system capable of specifying a printer and performing printing without the necessity of a printer driver that depends on environment of a computer.SOLUTION: A device server 4 comprises: a device information acquisition section 71 searching an available printer 3 and acquiring device information including a printer ID and a communication port; a device list generation section 72 generating a device list 36 based on the device information; and a device list transmission section 73 transmitting the device list 36 to a client terminal 2. The client terminal 2 comprises: a Web page acquisition section 81 acquiring a Web page 21 incorporated with a script for print control 23; a device list acquisition section 83 acquiring the device list 36 by the script for the print control 23; a device selection section 84 selecting one printer 3 from the device list 36; and a print instruction section 87 instructing the selected printer 3 to perform printing.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2