Printing system, printing method and printer driver

A printing method employed in a system, in which a computer terminal device to issue an instruction for implementing a printing operation, and an image forming apparatus that receives the instruction issued by the computer terminal device, to implement the printing operation, are coupled to each other through a communication network, the printing method comprising:

• acquiring apparatus information that includes information in regard to a kind of paper-sheet feeding tray provided in the image forming apparatus and a kind of paper sheet corresponding to the paper-sheet feeding tray, from the image forming apparatus through the communication network by the computer terminal device;
• and
• displaying a specific screen for setting a print condition on a display section provided in the computer terminal device;
• wherein, in the displaying step, both the apparatus information and setting information that includes information in regard to a kind of paper-sheet feeding tray and a kind of paper sheet corresponding to the paper-sheet feeding tray, which are established in advance by a user or established in advance as default information, are displayed on the specific screen.

A computer readable medium storing a computer executable program for controlling an image forming apparatus to be coupled to a computer through a communication network, the program comprising program code for causing the computer to perform the steps of:

• acquiring apparatus information that includes information in regard to a kind of paper-sheet feeding tray provided in the image forming apparatus and a kind of paper sheet corresponding to the paper-sheet feeding tray, from the image forming apparatus through the communication network;
• displaying a specific screen for setting a print condition on a display section provided in the computer;
• and
• controlling the display section, so that both the apparatus information and setting information that includes information in regard to a kind of paper-sheet feeding tray and a kind of paper sheet corresponding to the paper-sheet feeding tray, which are established in advance by a user or established in advance as default information, are displayed on the specific screen.