Printing system, printing apparatus, printing method, and computer readable medium

A printing apparatus that communicates with a print data generating apparatus which generates print data in accordance with reception of a print instruction, which notifies an output destination specified by the print instruction of completion of generation of the print data, and which transmits the print data and print control information to an apparatus serving as a request source in response to a request, and that communicates with a print data processing apparatus which processes print data received from the print data generating apparatus, and which transmits the processed print data to an apparatus serving as a request source in response to a request, the printing apparatus comprising:

• a print instruction transmitting unit that transmits a print instruction in which the printing apparatus is specified as an output destination to the print data generating apparatus, and that transmits, in a case where a process printing operation has been performed, a first print instruction that specifies the printing apparatus as an output destination and a second print instruction that specifies the print data processing apparatus as an output destination to the print data generating apparatus;
• a requesting unit that requests the print data generating apparatus to transmit the print data upon receiving a notification representing completion of generation of the print data from the print data generating apparatus;
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• a requesting unit that requests the print data processing apparatus to transmit the processed print data upon receiving print control information including an address of the print data processing apparatus from the print data generating apparatus.

A printing method comprising:

• transmitting, to a print data generating apparatus, a print instruction in which a printing apparatus is specified as an output destination;
• receiving the print instruction;
• generating print data in accordance with reception of the print instruction;
• storing, in a memory, the generated print data and the output destination specified by the print instruction in association with each other;
• transmitting notification information to the output destination specified by the print instruction, the notification information representing completion of generation of the print data;
• requesting, in accordance with reception of the notification information, the print data generating apparatus to transmit the print data;
• transmitting, in response to the request from the output destination stored in the memory, the print data associated with the output destination and print control information which is to be used for print control to the output destination;
• requesting the print data generating apparatus to transmit the print data in accordance with reception of the notification information;
• receiving the print data and the print control information transmitted from the print data generating apparatus;
• processing the received print data and storing, in a memory, the processed print data and the received print control information in association with each other;
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• transmitting, in response to a request from the printing apparatus, the processed print data stored in the memory to the printing apparatus,
• wherein, in a case where a process printing operation has been performed, a first print instruction that specifies the printing apparatus as an output destination and a second print instruction that specifies a print data processing apparatus as an output destination are transmitted to the print data generating apparatus, and
• wherein, in the case of transmitting print data generated in accordance with reception of the first print instruction to the printing apparatus, information indicating an address of the print data processing apparatus is transmitted as the print control information.

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to function as a printing apparatus, the computer communicating with a print data generating apparatus which generates print data in accordance with reception of a print instruction, which notifies an output destination specified by the print instruction of completion of generation of the print data, and which transmits the print data and print control information to an apparatus serving as a request source in response to a request, and communicating with a print data processing apparatus which processes print data received from the print data generating apparatus, and which transmits the processed print data to an apparatus serving as a request source in response to a request, the program causing the computer to execute a process comprising:

• transmitting a print instruction in which the printing' apparatus is specified as an output destination to the print data generating apparatus, and transmitting, in a case where a process printing operation has been performed, a first print instruction that specifies the printing apparatus as an output destination and a second print instruction that specifies the print data processing apparatus as an output destination to the print data generating apparatus;
• requesting the print data generating apparatus to transmit the print data upon receiving a notification representing completion of generation of the print data from the print data generating apparatus;
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• requesting the print data processing apparatus to transmit the processed print data upon receiving print control information including an address of the print data processing apparatus from the print data generating apparatus.