Patent ID: 8970879
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing system comprising a print server, one or more mediation apparatuses, and one or more image forming apparatuses, wherein said print server is located on an external network, said one or more mediation apparatuses and said one or more image forming apparatuses are located on an internal network, and a firewall is located between said external network and said internal network, said print server including: each of said one or more mediation apparatuses including: each of said one or more image forming apparatuses including: wherein said management unit of said print server manages an image forming apparatus in association with a group indicated by the identification information in response to the registration request from any one of said one or more image forming apparatuses, wherein in a case where said identification information acquisition unit of said image forming apparatus could not acquire the identification information, said registration request transmission unit transmits a registration request containing no identification information to said print server, wherein said management unit of said print server issues new identification information in response to the registration request containing no identification information, and manages the new identification information and said image forming apparatus in association with each other, and wherein at least one of the first connection unit, the management unit, the transfer instruction transmission unit, the processing unit, the second connection unit, the transfer instruction reception unit, the determination unit, the print request transmission unit, the print request reception unit, the print job acquisition unit, the printing unit, the identification information acquisition unit, and the registration request transmission unit is implemented by a processor.