| 摘要 |
According to the present invention, an automatic dispersion printing method of an image forming apparatus recognizes the number of printers which do not operate on a network and determines whether it is possible to print double sided paper and print in color and the printing speed of each printer to be designated into each group. When giving a printing order of a document, the present invention calculates the number of papers to be printed by recognizing document information and makes a printing order by determining whether to print double sided paper and print in color and distributing the number of papers to be printed to a plurality of printers which does not currently operate among the printers in the disclosed group. |
