To provide a mechanism for causing a printing apparatus in which a user logged to display data printable by the user, there is provided a printing control method in a printing control system in which the image forming apparatus includes the steps of transmitting the input user identification information to the printing control server, and displaying the printing data information list received from the printing control server, so that the printing data printable by the image forming apparatus and the printing data not printable by the image forming apparatus can be discriminated from each other.