Patent ID: 8681347

Claim:
An image forming apparatus for printing based on a print job, comprising: a management unit that manages a characteristic of a custom media; an input unit that inputs a print job with setting information containing media identification information for identifying a media which is to be used; a determination unit that determines whether a media identified using the media identification information is a standard media or a custom media; a conversion unit that, in a case where the media identified using the media identification information is the custom media, determines a standard media based on the characteristic of the custom media and converts the setting information to a setting of the standard media that can be printed by another image forming apparatus; and a storage unit that stores the print job including the setting information that has been converted by the conversion unit, wherein in a case where the setting information of the custom media has been converted to a setting of a standard media that can be printed by the another image forming apparatus, the print job including media identification information of the standard media is stored in the storage unit, wherein in a case where the setting information of the custom media has not been converted to a setting of a standard media, media identification information is made blank, and the print job including the setting information of the custom media is stored in the storage unit, wherein in a case where the print job including media identification information of the standard media is read when another image forming apparatus reads the print job stored in the storage unit, the print job is performed as the standard media, and wherein in a case where the print job in which media identification information is blank is read when another image forming apparatus reads the print job stored in the storage unit, a unique identifier of the another image forming apparatus is embedded in the setting information of the custom media.