IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD OF CONTROLLING PRINTING AND PRINTING SYSTEM

摘要

If a size of a PDF file obtained from a server exceeds a capacity handled by an image forming apparatus, by notifying the server of capabilities of the image forming apparatus as a PDF-incompatible device, without a user operation document data of a smaller size is obtained from the server and printed.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus connected to a server that generates job data in accordance with capability information of a registered image forming apparatus in accordance with a print request, and regenerates the job data in accordance with updated capability information in accordance with an update request, the apparatus comprising:
a comparing unit configured to compare a size of job data obtained from the server and a storage capacity of a storage for storing job data; an update requesting unit configured to transmit to the server the update request to cause the size of the job data to be reduced in a case where the size of the job data is larger than the storage capacity; and an image forming unit configured to form an image based on the job data in a case where the size of the job data is less than or equal to the storage capacity.