Patent ID: 8873089

Claim:
A printing system comprising: an archive job management apparatus including a job information management unit configured to store job information relating to an entity or a storage destination of an archive job, which is a print job stored in a storage medium, limiting number of times of printing for the archive job, and print history of the archive job, while associating each stored information with other stored information, in the storage medium, and configured to manage the stored job information; and a print management apparatus configured to instruct an image forming apparatus to perform printing of an archive job according to a print request from a client apparatus, wherein the print management apparatus includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a limiting number of times of printing and the print history as information about the archive job according to the print request, and a determination unit configured to determine that the archive job is printable if a number of times the archive job has been actually printed is equal to or less than the limiting number of times of printing based on a number of times of restrictive printing and the print history of the print requested archive job; and wherein the archive job management apparatus further includes: a redirect information generation unit configured to generate redirect information, which includes information that can identify the print requested archive job, and information that can specify the archive job management apparatus, wherein the redirect information is required when the client apparatus redirects a response to the print request, if returned from the archive job management apparatus, to the print management apparatus, and a redirect information transmission unit configured to transmit the redirect information, as a response to the print request, to the client apparatus.