Printing system and method of controlling thereof

摘要

In a printing system which causes a printing apparatus to perform printing based on print data generated by a data-generating apparatus, plural types of printing apparatuses which can be connected to the printing system include model information inherent in each model. The data-generating apparatus includes: editing functions for generating print data by editing input data; a database which correlates all model information with the editing functions possessed by the plurality of types of printing apparatuses based on printing functions; a model-information acquiring device for acquiring model information of the connected printing apparatuses; a function-specifying device for specifying an editing function not supported by the printing apparatus in view of the acquired model information based on the database; and a function-limiting device for limiting use of the unsupported editing function. It is thus possible to prevent disagreement between the user's print images prior to printing and actual print results from occurring.