Patent ID: 8289557

Claim:
A pull printing system comprising: a server machine; and an image forming apparatus, wherein the image forming apparatus includes a request portion that requests, from the server machine, access information used for reading out a print job, and a reception portion that receives the access information from the server machine, and the server machine includes a print job storage portion that receives the print job and stores the print job into a job storage area, a device-specified storage area into which the print job is to be stored, the device-specified storage area being provided to correspond to the image forming apparatus, a storage portion that stores, therein, access information used for reading out the print job from the device-specified storage area, and a response portion that, if a request by the request portion is received from the image forming apparatus, and if there is access information used for reading out the print job from the job storage area, sends the access information to the image forming apparatus, and, if the request by the request portion is received from the image forming apparatus, and if there is no said access information, moves the print job to the device-specified storage area, and sends, to the image forming apparatus, the access information used for reading out the print job from the device-specified storage area.