Patent ID: 8184323

Claim:
An image delivery system for delivering a print job, the delivery system comprising an image delivery server, a plurality of image processors each comprising a printing unit, and an information processor, the image delivery server, the image processors and the information processor being connected to one another via a network, the image delivery server being adapted to deliver all at once a print job to each of the image processors connected to the network, the information processor supplying the image delivery server with print job data based on an entry operation of an operator, the print job data including at least image data and print setting information for each printing unit, respectively; the image processor being configured to perform print processing based on the print job data supplied by the information processor; the image delivery server including: a data recording unit; a setting recording unit for receiving the print job data and recording the received data in the data recording unit; an updating unit capable of updating the recorded print setting information for at least one corresponding image processor based on input from at least one of the image processors, the updating unit receiving the print setting information from the image processor, reading processor information of the image processor that transmitted the print setting information, and updating the print setting information of the image processor that transmitted the print setting information; and a delivery unit for delivering all at once a print job to each of image processors connected to the network based on the updated print setting information.