Patent ID: 9632738
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: G06F,Y02D

Claim:
1. An image forming system comprising a plurality of image forming apparatuses communicably connected to each other, wherein each of the plurality of image forming apparatuses is an image forming apparatus that executes a printing process based on a printing job, at least one of the plurality of image forming apparatuses is a report accepting image forming apparatus that accepts a last exit report from a last exiting person who exits last from an installation area of the image forming system, the report accepting image forming apparatus stores a list indicating the plurality of image forming apparatuses, accepts an input of user information by the last exiting person and an operation of making a last exit report and thereby recognizes the last exiting person and accepts the last exit report, and accepts an input for selecting, out of the plurality of image forming apparatuses, an image forming apparatus that executes a printing process based on a printing job of the last exiting person, and upon accepting the last exit report, the report accepting image forming apparatus executes a last exit process preset as a process to be executed when the last exiting person exits from the installation area and transmits, to any other of the plurality of image forming apparatuses listed on the list, a last exit notification including information indicating the last exiting person and a command for commanding the any other of the plurality of image forming apparatuses to execute the last exit process so that the any other of the plurality of image forming apparatuses listed on the list also recognizes the last exiting person and executes the last exit process, in a case where the printing job of the last exiting person is held in the yet-to-be-executed state in any other of the image forming apparatuses than the image forming apparatus selected by the last exiting person, the any other of the image forming apparatuses that holds the printing job of the last exiting person in the yet-to-be-executed state executes, as the last exit process, a process of transmitting the printing job of the last exiting person to the image forming apparatus selected by the last exiting person, and the image forming apparatus selected by the last exiting person executes the printing process based on the printing job of the last exiting person transmitted from the any other of the image forming apparatuses than the image forming apparatus selected by the last exiting person, and in a case where the printing job of the last exiting person is held in the yet-to-be-executed state in the image forming apparatus selected by the last exiting person, the image forming apparatus selected by the last exiting person executes, as the last exit process, the printing process based on the printing job of the last exiting person transmitted.