Patent ID: 7408671

Claim:
A distribution printing system that controls distribution printing, comprising: a child job controller that controls generating of a plurality of child jobs for a plurality of printers based on intermediate data generated as a parent job in accordance with application data, in response to input of an instruction for distribution printing; a first output controller that controls outputting of the plurality of child jobs to a first print queue and a second print queue from which data are to be output to a first printer and a second printer, respectively; a second output controller that controls outputting of the plurality of child jobs to the first and second printers via the first and second print queues, respectively; a management controller that discriminates whether each of the plurality of child jobs is retained in the first or second print queue or in the first or second printer; a display controller that causes a display unit to display a status of the parent job based on a status of each of the plurality of child jobs; and a processing controller that controls processing on the plurality of child jobs based on a discrimination controlled by said management controller, when processing on the parent job is instructed via an operation screen, wherein said processing controller controls, for each of the plurality of child jobs, the processing on the child job retained in the first or second print queue if said management controller discriminates that the child job is retained in the first or second print queue, and the processing on the child job retained in the first or second printer if said management controller discriminates that the child job has been output to the first or second printer by said second output controller.