Printing system and distributed image forming method

摘要

There is provided a printing system which enable image output with a uniform image quality as a whole even in the case where a plurality of image forming apparatuses are caused to carry out distributed printing. A plurality of image forming apparatuses carry out image formation on a sheet. Margins in which no image is formed in the image formation carried out by each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses are stored. An optimum margin having a maximum value is selected from among the stored margins for each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses. An effective image area found from the selected optimum margin and the size of the sheet on which the image formation is to be carried out is calculated. Image data is adjusted for each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses such that an image to be formed based on the image data fits within the calculated effective image.