摘要 |
To allow a user to efficiently select a printer and a printer drive for the printer by providing information on a selection state of printers and printer drives for the printers of users around the user when the user selects a printer and a printer driver for the printer. A printer management apparatus includes a state-of-use managing unit that manages, on the basis of a history of communication with a terminal apparatus, predetermined information concerning a state of use of a printer by the terminal apparatus and a state-of-use displaying unit that transmits, in response to a printer device detection signal received from the terminal apparatus, the predetermined information concerning the state of use of the printer managed by the state-of-use managing unit to the terminal apparatus, which transmits the printer device detection signal, and causes the terminal apparatus to display the predetermined information. |