Patent ID: 8400663

Claim:
An image processing device comprising: a separator configured to separate a first print job into a first piece of job setting information and a first piece of image information; a storage processing section configured to have the first piece of job setting information and the first piece of image information associated with each other to store in a memory; a setting change section configured to generate a second piece of job setting information of a second print job as a new piece of job setting information according to a setting change with respect to the first print job stored in the memory and have the second piece of job setting information as generated associated with the first piece of image information to store in the memory; and a transmitter configured to transmit, to an image forming device, a piece of job setting information of a print job to be executed and a piece of image information associated with the piece of job setting information to be executed; wherein the storage processing section is configured to have a counting number representing a number of pieces of job setting information associated with a piece of image information associated with the piece of image information to store in the memory; delete a piece of job setting information corresponding to a print job to be deleted and decrement a counting number of a piece of image information associated with the piece of job setting information as deleted; and delete a piece of image information with a counting number being zero.