To transfer information on a use state and a use history to PC except for client PC transmitting a print command by registering prescribed PC and a work station through I/F.

Printers 201-204 form a network by I/F which can directly be connected to a network 205. When a recording signal is transmitted to a printer 204 from PC 201, information of the middle of printing and printing termination and a printer use situation are transferred to PC 201 being host PC which tries to record data, and they are displayed on a printer driver which resides in PC 201 as messages. When PC 203 is previously registered in a printer 204, for example, information of the use state/use history of the printer 204 is transferred to registered PC 203 even if it is accessed from PC 201. In such a case, they can be transferred to PC 201 making access and registered PC 203. Then, plural PC which can be registered are allowable.