A printing system including a server and a printer which can be communicate with the server. In such a system, the server is provided with a location data storage that stores location data of print data to be printed by the printer, and a data transmitting device that transmits the location data of the print data to the printer in response to a request of the location data received from the printer. While, the printer is provided with a location data requesting system that transmits a request for the location data to the server, a location data receiving system that receives the location data transmitted by the data transmitting device, and a printing device that obtains the print data from the location indicated by the location data received by the location data receiving system and prints out the obtained print data.