Patent ID: 8159711

Claim:
A printing system comprising an information processing apparatus, a printer and a collator, the information processing apparatus comprising: a print data generating unit configured to generate print data instructing to output without collation a printed material of a plurality of records generated by merging fixed data used for a plurality of pages and variable data different from the fixed data and to insert one insertion page in the printed material for every predetermined number of records; and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the print data to the printer; the printer comprising: an output unit configured to output without collation the printed material of the plurality of records and to insert the one insertion page in the printed material for every predetermined number of records, based on the print data, the collator comprising: bins configured to receive the printed material of the plurality of records containing the insertion page output without collation; a collating unit configured to output the printed material output without collation received in the bins as a collated printed material; an inspection unit configured to inspect the printed material for every predetermined number of records; and a stopping unit configured to stop processing of the collating unit when the insertion page and the printed material of another record are included in the printed material inspected by the inspection unit.