To allow a user to select the most effective printer in a printing time, without grasping the functions or the characteristics of printers connected to a network.

A client issuing a print job generates print conditions of the job as bidding data to send them to the printers and leaves decision whether the print job is to be printed and estimation of possible print conditions in the case of printing to the printers. Then, the client decides a printer used for printing, based on the bidding response data received from the printers.