Patent ID: 8320002

Claim:
A printing system capable of implementing 2-path printing using a plurality of image forming apparatuses in cooperation with each other, the system comprising: a processor coupled to a memory, cooperating to function as: an actual performance management unit configured to manage, as an actual performance for each user, a count of sheets used in print processing; an upper limit management unit configured to store an upper limit value of a printable sheet count for each user, and perform print inhibition processing based on a print request from a user for whom the actual performance of the sheet count managed by the actual performance management unit exceeds the upper limit value; a first processing unit configured to, in a first image forming apparatus, execute a first-path print processing in a 2-path printing and deliver a printed material; and a second processing unit configured to execute a second-path print processing in the 2-path printing, for the printed material on which the first processing unit executed the first-path print processing, in a second image forming apparatus different from the first image forming apparatus, wherein, even if the actual performance of the sheet count managed by the actual performance management unit for a user who designated the 2-path printing has reached the upper limit value in the second-path print processing in the 2-path printing, the upper limit management unit does not perform the print inhibition processing, and the second processing unit performs the second-path print processing.