Patent ID: 7859702

Claim:
An image forming apparatus for forming images onto printable record media, each printable record medium having an identification information section providing identification information to identify the printable record medium, the apparatus comprising: a print job management information storing section for storing management information for a print job, the print job management information being sent from an information processing apparatus and containing separate identification information to identify each of the printable record media on which images for the print job are formed when the print job is completed; a record medium holding section for holding as print result objects the printable record media having images formed thereon; means for collating the print job management information in said print job management information storing section with the identification information of the print result objects held in said record medium holding section; and a print job managing section to make a judgment, on the basis of a result of the collation, whether all print result objects corresponding to the completed print job are in said record medium holding section, and to make a predetermined notifying section produce a notification when the judgment is that all the print result objects are not in said record medium holding section.