To freely construct a printing service system which can practice a printing service business such that a user visits a specified store and can easily use free printing service wherein a generated free printing job is received from a server device to perform free printing.

The printing service system is characterized by having a constitution in which, once receiving an output request for a printing job from a user personal computer 101A, the server 108 informs the user personal computer 101A of authentication information for authenticating the received printing job and when the user inputs the authentication information from a printer device 102 to request an inquiry about the authentication information, the server 108 transfers the free printing job generated from the received printing job and additional information to the printer device 102.