Patent ID: 8488157

Claim:
A printing system comprising: an information processing apparatus adapted to transmit a print job, comprising: a management information storage unit that stores management information including no-output information and recovery information of a print job that becomes a target to be recovered; and a management information transmission unit that transmits the management information including the no-output information and the recovery information of the print job corresponding to user information, and an image forming apparatus adapted to print out the print job received from said information processing apparatus, comprising: an identifying information input unit that receives an input of identifying information for identifying a user; a user information transmission unit that transmits the user information determined by authenticating the received identifying information to said information processing apparatus; a management information receiving unit that receives the management information of the print job corresponding to the transmitted user information from said information processing apparatus; a display unit that displays a screen corresponding to the management information; and a display control unit that controls the display unit so as to display a no-outputted print job according to the no-output information included in the management information when an output operation for the print job is received on the displayed screen, and to display a no-recovered print job according to the recovery information included in the management information when a recovery operation for the print job is received; wherein said image forming apparatus receives a recovery operation for the no-recovered print job displayed on the display unit, and transmits a completion of recovery to said information processing apparatus to treat the print job to which the recovery operation is received as “recovered”, and wherein the display control unit controls the display unit to display a screen on which a search button for receiving a search operation of the no-recovered print job is arranged, and wherein the display control unit acquires, when the search operation for the no-recovered print job is received by the search button, date and time of output of the no-recovered print job and date and time of receiving the search operation, acquires the user information about the user who outputs and recovers the print job between the date and time of the output and the date and time of the search operation, and controls the display unit to display the acquired user information.