Patent ID: 7492474

Claim:
A distribution printing system that controls distribution printing, comprising: a child job controller that controls generating of a plurality of child jobs for a plurality of printers based on intermediate data generated as a parent job in accordance with application data, in response to input of an instruction for distribution printing; an output controller that controls outputting each of the plurality of child jobs to a corresponding one of the plurality of printers; a determination unit that determines, when deletion of one of the plurality of child jobs is instructed, whether another of the plurality of child jobs is present or no other ones of the plurality of child jobs are present; and a deletion controller that controls deletion of the plurality of child jobs and the parent job, wherein said deletion controller deletes the one child job, without deleting the parent job, if another of the plurality of child jobs is present, and deletes the one child job and the parent job, if no other ones of the plurality of child jobs are present based on a determination made by said determination unit.