Patent ID: 8400653

Claim:
A printing system configured by connecting a server, at least one image forming apparatus, and at least one client PC to a network, in which the image forming apparatus executes a printing job that is received from the client PC, wherein the image forming apparatus includes a plurality of ejected-paper trays each provided with a sensor to detect existence/non-existence of a printed paper sheet, wherein the image forming apparatus comprises: a control portion configured to transmit to the server printing execution result information including at least information of the client PC that has requested printing of a printing job, a logged-in user, a date and time of the printing, and information of the ejected-paper tray to which the printed paper sheet is output, when the image forming apparatus executes printing of the printing job that is received from the client PC; an operation displaying portion that displays information on an unfetched printed paper sheet transmitted from the server, and transmits to the server information indicating that the printed paper sheet is fetched from the ejected-paper tray by a user, when it is detected by the sensor that the printed paper sheet is fetched from the ejected-paper tray, the server configured to maintain a printing record list including at least the client PC that has requested printing of the print job, the logged-in user, the date and time of the printing, the information of the tray to which the printed paper is output, and to which a fetch flag of the printed paper sheet output to the tray for the print job is attached, based on the printing execution result information sent from the image forming apparatus, the server configured to manage a state of whether the printed paper sheet is fetched from the ejected-paper tray in the image forming apparatus by executing updating processing for changing the fetch flag from “unfetched” to “fetched” in the printing record list when the information indicating that the printed paper sheet output to the tray is fetched by the user is received from the image forming apparatus, and the server configured to give the user of the image forming apparatus or the client PC the printing record list for which the fetch flag indicates “unfetched” in response to an inquiry from the image forming apparatus or the client PC.