Patent ID: 7640294

Claim:
A printer comprising: a receiving unit adapted to receive a print job; a storing unit adapted to store a plurality of the print jobs received by the receiving unit; a printing unit adapted to execute a print process of the print job stored by the storing unit; a display unit adapted to display the plurality of the print jobs stored by the storing unit; a selecting unit adapted to select one of the print jobs displayed by the display unit; a status obtaining unit adapted to obtain a status of the print job selected by the selecting unit; an output-destination accepting unit adapted to accept an instruction that the selected print job is transmitted to another printer in a case where the status of the selected print job is that the selected print job is not being printed; a restricting unit adapted to restrict the transmission of the selected print job to another printer in a case where the status of the selected print job is that the selected print job is being printed; and a control unit adapted to transmit, to another printer, the print job whose instruction is accepted by the output-destination accepting unit, and cause the another printer to execute a print process of the transmitted print job.