Printing apparatus, system having the same, and method of controlling printing apparatus

An information processing method of an information processing apparatus that serves as a host unit for communicating with a plurality of printing apparatuses via a network, each of the plurality of printing apparatuses being in a print-ready state or a second power state in which power consumption is less than that of the print-ready state, said method comprising:

• a request step of requesting status information of each of the plurality of printing apparatuses;
• a reception step of receiving the status information of each of the plurality of printing apparatuses requested in said request step;
• an identification step of identifying each of the plurality of printing apparatuses as being either in the print-ready state or the second power state, based on the status information received in said reception step;
• and
• a display step of controlling a display of a plurality of printer states, wherein the display indicates the state of each of the plurality of printing apparatuses on a same window, so as to indicate each printing apparatus as being in the print-ready state or in the second power state, based on a respective identification result in said identification step.

A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for implementing an information processing method of an information processing apparatus that serves as a host unit for communicating with a plurality of printing apparatuses via a network, each of the plurality of printing apparatuses being in a printing-state;

• a print-ready state or a second power state in which power consumption is less than that of the print-ready state, the program comprising:
• code for a request step of requesting status information of each of the plurality of printing apparatuses;
• code for a reception step of receiving the status information of each of the plurality of printing apparatuses requested in the request step;
• code for an identification step of identifying each of the plurality of printing apparatuses as being either in the print-ready state or the second power state, based on the status information received in the reception step;
• and
• code for a display step of controlling a display of a plurality of printer states, wherein the display indicates the state of each of the plurality of printing apparatuses on a same window, so as to indicate each printing apparatus as being in the print-ready state or in the second power state, based on a respective identification result in the identification step.