Patent ID: 9176692
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus configured to execute print processing based on print data received from an information processing apparatus, the image forming apparatus comprising: a determination unit configured to determine whether the print data received from the information processing apparatus includes identification information indicating that a history of a job to be performed by the image forming apparatus is previously recorded as a job history and transmitted to a job history management server; a transmission unit configured to, in a case where the determination unit determines that the print data does not include the identification information, transmit the print data to other image forming apparatus so that the other image forming apparatus records as a job history a history of the job to be processed by the image forming apparatus and transmits the recorded job history to the job history management server; a receiving unit configured to receive from the other image forming apparatus information on whether the other image forming apparatus has succeeded in transmitting to the job history management server a history corresponding to the transmitted print data; and a print execution unit configured to, in a case where the information received by the receiving unit is information that transmission of the job history has succeeded, perform print processing based on the print data, wherein, in a case where the information received by the receiving unit is information that transmission of the job history has failed, the print processing based on the print data is canceled.