Patent ID: 7180626

Claim:
A printing system comprising a plurality of printing apparatuses, each having a printing mechanism and a buffer for spooling assigned to the printing mechanism, and at least one information processing apparatus outputting print jobs, which are connected mutually, each of the print jobs being sent from the information processing apparatus to the buffer included in any of the plurality of printing apparatuses and being printed by the printing mechanism by utilizing the spooling function of the printing apparatus, said printing system comprising: a source apparatus specification unit that specifies a source printing apparatus, which entrusts at least one print job stored in its own buffer to another printing apparatus, in a preset range of printing apparatuses; and a job transfer unit that itself automatically transfers the at least one print job stored in the buffer provided in the source printing apparatus specified by said source apparatus specification unit to the buffer of another printing apparatus in the preset range of printing apparatuses.