IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve a problem wherein in a distribution print system, pages of printed sheets outputted from a plurality of printers have to be subjected to a mixture operation for sorting them in the original order by a manual operation so that the increase amount of the cost and time for the mixture operation possibly exceeds the reduction amount thereof by the distribution printing. SOLUTION: There is disclosed the system wherein it is judged whether or not image data is of a color page by a page judging section 4 by each page and the color page is outputted to a color printer 12 and a monochrome page is outputted to a monochrome printer 13 in a distribution method. When a rate of the number of color pages to the number of all the pages is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the distribution printing is not executed by outputting all the pages to the color printer 12.