Patent ID: 8218173

Claim:
A printing system comprising a printing apparatus to perform print processing and a post processing apparatus to perform post processing for printed material obtained by the print processing in the printing apparatus, the printing apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive a merged job generated by merging a plurality of jobs issued from a plurality of users, wherein the merged job is handled as one job; a printing unit configured to perform the print processing based on the merged job received by said receiving unit; and a first notifying unit configured to provide, when the print processing of a job from a single user of the plurality of jobs in the merged job ends in the printing unit, a first end notification for the single user before the print processing for the merged job ends, wherein the first end notification for each of the plurality of users is provided when the print processing of the corresponding job issuing from each of the plurality of users ends in the printing unit, the post processing apparatus comprising: a post processing unit configured to perform post processing for the printed material of the merged job printed by the printing unit; and a second notifying unit configured to provide, when the post processing of the job from the single user of the plurality of jobs in the merged job ends in the post processing unit, a second end notification for the single user before the post processing for the merged job ends, wherein the second end notification for each of the plurality of users is provided when the post processing of the corresponding job issuing from each of the plurality of users ends in the post processing unit.