SERVER, JOB MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, JOB MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly perform processing of a plurality of printers while suppressing the total value of power consumption of the plurality of printers.SOLUTION: There is provided a server that manages jobs executed in a plurality of image forming apparatuses including print engines, the server including: job separation instruction means for instructing to separate the jobs into pre-processing not involving the operation of the print engines and post-processing involving the operation of the print engines; and job management means for controlling a timing to start the execution of the post-processing executed in the plurality of image forming apparatuses so that the post-processing is not executed in the plurality of image forming apparatuses at the same time.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 9