Patent ID: 8547581

Claim:
A printing system that comprises a plurality of host apparatuses and a printing apparatus that are connected via an electric communication line, the printing apparatus executing a printing process for a print job that includes printing data transmitted from the host apparatuses and a processing instruction, the printing system comprising: a printing status information storage unit configured to store therein printing status information and host apparatus identification information so as to be associated with each other, wherein the printing status information includes a printing status representing whether or not a printing processing of the print job in the printing apparatus is interrupted, and the host apparatus identification information represents the host apparatus as a requestor of the print job; a printing status information update unit configured to update the printing status information stored in the printing status information storage unit based on a monitoring result of the printing apparatus; a job managing unit configured to judge whether to execute the print job in the printing apparatus according to the printing status information when receiving a processing request of the print job from the host apparatus; and a printing status information managing unit configured to decide printing status information to be stored in the printing status information storage unit, wherein the printing status information managing unit is further configured to first delete, from the printing status information storage unit, printing status information on a print job transmitted from a low-ranked host apparatus that is previously set, wherein the printing status information managing unit deletes printing status information on a print job whose printing process is completed, on the basis of the printing status information, and wherein when deleting printing status information on print jobs transmitted from the plurality of host apparatuses having a same rank, the printing status information managing unit deletes the printing status information in a newly created order.