Patent ID: 8248635

Claim:
An image processing system comprising: an image forming apparatus; and an image editing apparatus, the image forming apparatus comprising: an input unit adapted to input image data; a storage unit adapted to store the image data input by the input unit in a memory; and a first transmitting unit adapted to transmit the image data input by the input unit to the image editing apparatus, the image editing apparatus comprising: a first receiving unit adapted to receive the image data transmitted by the first transmitting unit from the image forming apparatus; an indication unit adapted to indicate an image editing process to be executed on the image data received by the first receiving unit; a first image editing unit adapted to execute the image editing process indicated by the indication unit on the image data received by the first receiving unit; and a second transmitting unit adapted to transmit print data including the image data on which the image editing process is executed by the first image editing unit to the image forming apparatus in a case where the image editing process indicated by the indication unit is inexecutable in the image forming apparatus, and to transmit print data not including the image data on which the image editing process is executed by the first image editing unit but including identification information representing the image data received by the first receiving unit and edit information representing the image editing process indicated by the indication unit to the image forming apparatus in a case where the image editing process indicated by the indication unit is executable in the image forming apparatus, and the image forming apparatus further comprising: an input unit adapted to input image data a second receiving unit adapted to receive the print data transmitted by the second transmitting unit; a second image editing unit adapted to execute the image editing process represented by the edit information on the image data represented by the identification information among the image data stored in the memory in a case where the print data received by the second receiving unit does not include the image data on which the image editing process is executed by the first image editing unit but includes the identification information and the edit information; and an output unit adapted to output the image data on which the image editing process is executed by the first image editing unit in a case where the print data received by the second receiving unit includes the image data on which the image editing process is executed by the first image editing unit, and to output the image data on which the image editing process is executed by the second image editing unit in a case where the print data received by the second receiving unit does not include the image data on which the image editing process is executed by the first image editing unit but includes the identification information and the edit information.