Patent ID: 8780399

Claim:
A print management system, connected to a manuscript processor and multiple output enabled printers via a network, comprising: a management unit to receive print manuscript data from the manuscript processor, and obtain status information from the multiple output enabled printers indicating states of the respective multiple output enabled printers; a status identification unit to predict whether the output enabled printers stop in the middle of a print job; and a print data generator to generate multiple types of print data whose amount of toner consumption during printing differs based on the print manuscript data, wherein the management unit classifies those printers predicted by the status identification unit to have a smaller possibility of stopping in the middle of a print job as output candidate printers, the management unit selects an output destination printer from the output candidate printers, the management unit selects one type of print data from the multiple types of print data generated by the print data generator depending on the output destination printer selected by the management unit, and the management unit outputs the selected print data to the output destination printer.