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A printing system and a control method thereof are provided to perform a printing job efficiently and shorten printing time by distributing and printing a document through a plurality of networked terminal devices, and enable a user to obtain prints conveniently without any collecting and arranging process by arranging printing data converted in the printing system and printing the printing data in arranged order. A first terminal(110a) converts a part of printing data of a document to be printed. Other terminals(110n) receive the remaining part of the document from the first terminal and convert the received document into printing data. An image forming device(120) prints the printing data received from the first and other terminals. The first terminal includes a printer driver(113a) dividing the document into a plurality of parts and a controller(112a) transmitting the divided documents to other terminals. The image forming device includes the controller(123) searching the terminal having the same printer driver as the first terminal and informing the first terminal of the searched terminals, and a storing part(122) storing information for the printer driver of the first and other terminals. A printing engine part(124) receives one document in which arranged printing data are integrated, and prints the arranged printing data on a paper.
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