PROFILE ACQUISITION METHOD, APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

A printer (702) manages profile information and communicates with other apparatuses through a network (710). The printer (702) receives an acquisition request (1001) for profile information, issues an acquisition request (1002) for profile information of a display (703), and receives a result reply (1003) as the profile information from the display (703). Then, the printer (702) processes the acquisition request (1001) for profile information, the processing being performed according to profile information managed and the profile information of the display (703), and the result of the processing is returned as a result reply (1004).