Patent ID: 6863456

Claim:
An image forming system comprising a plurality of image-forming-job managing apparatuses which manage respective image forming apparatuses, and a terminal which generates an image forming job, the image-forming-job managing apparatuses and the terminal being connected by a communication line, the terminal comprising: an input section to designate one of the image forming apparatuses as an output destination of the image forming job; job transmitting means for transmitting the image forming job via the communication line to the image-forming-job managing apparatus which manages the image forming apparatus designated as the output destination; and first command transmitting means for transmitting a job output destination changing command, which requests a change of the output destination of the image forming job, to the image-forming-job managing apparatus via the communication line, each of the image-forming-job managing apparatuses comprising: a job storage section which stores the image forming job; and job transmitting means for transmitting the image forming job stored in the job storage section to another image-forming-job managing apparatus, on the basis of the job output destination changing command, via the communication line.