Printing system and charging method thereof

摘要

A charging information of every printing data producer or every section of printing data producers can be easily obtained without increase of cost of a printer and a higher rank device connected to the printer by letting the higher rank device to acquire from the printer values of a total print number counter before transmission of a printing data from the higher rank device to the printer, store the values of the total print number counter correspondingly to a name of the printing data producer attached to the printing data, calculate an accumulated number of prints for every name of printing data producer on the basis of the accumulated value of the total print number counter after the printing of the printing data is completed and record a result of calculation correspondingly to the name of the producer. <IMAGE>