Helping user select a printer in a multi-printer system to minimize printing time

A printing apparatus comprising:

• at least one IC that is configured to
• accumulate printing data transmitted from outside;
• control a printing unit that performs printing based on the printing data accumulated in the at least one IC;
• and
• transmit a beacon signal including data amount information indicating an amount of data of a standby printing job accumulated in the at least one IC,
• wherein the amount of data indicated by the data amount information is the number of jobs obtained by excluding the number of standby printing jobs which are printing targets when a printing instruction is received in a state in which the jobs are accumulated in the at least one IC, from the number of standby printing jobs.

A printing apparatus comprising:

• at least one IC configured to:
• accumulate printing data transmitted from outside;
• control a printing unit that performs printing based on the printing data accumulated in the at least one IC;
• transmit a beacon signal including data amount information indicating an amount of data of a standby printing job accumulated in the at least one IC,
• wherein the amount of data indicated by the data amount information is the number of jobs obtained by excluding the number of kinds of jobs processed in parallel with printing from the number of jobs which stand by for processing in the printing apparatus.