To prevent wasteful power consumption in print waiting in a print system performing printing in response to print requests from a plurality of devices.

When error occurs during printing in the print system performing printing in response to print request from a plurality of devices, other devices in print waiting state are laid in a low-power consumption state. According to this, power consumption can be reduced for not only the counter device for which the printing is currently performed but also for the other devices which are waiting for print.