| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mechanism for reducing communication load when printing data accumulated in an image forming device is printed from a desired image forming device by managing a list of image forming devices storing printing data, and requesting printing to an image forming device in accordance with the list.SOLUTION: In a first image forming device, on receipt of printing data, the printing data and bibliographic information of the printing data are stored in a predetermined storage means, specification information for specifying the first image forming device is transmitted to a second image forming device to notify that the printing data has been stored in the first image forming device, a list of image forming devices storing the printing data is requested to the second image forming device, the list of image forming devices storing the printing data is received from the second image forming device, and in accordance with a printing data list, printing is requested to an image forming device storing the printing data with respect to the image forming devices corresponding to the received list of the image forming devices. |
