Patent ID: 8468173

Claim:
An image processing apparatus for communicating with a portable processing device and a plurality of external devices each having a print function, the image processing apparatus comprising: a reading unit configured to read a user identification (ID) from the portable processing device; an obtaining unit configured to obtain a device information table from a management server via a network, wherein, in the device information table, apparatuses previously operated in the past by a user are managed for each user; a specifying unit configured to specify an external device previously operated by a specific user, which is identified by the read user ID, from among the plurality of external devices, based on the device information table obtained by the obtaining unit; a requesting unit configured to request the specified external device to send history information, wherein the history information includes setting information relating to print processing previously instructed to be executed in the specified external device by the specific user; a receiving unit configured to receive the history information from the specified external device; and a print processing unit configured to perform print processing in accordance with setting information included in the received history information.