Patent ID: 8615182

Claim:
A printing system including a first printing apparatus using a first recording agent and a second printing apparatus using a second recording agent and the first recording agent in which a paper discharge unit of the first printing apparatus is connected to a paper feeding unit of the second printing apparatus, the printing system comprising: a determination unit configured to determine whether input image data includes first data to be printed with the first recording agent and second data to be printed with the second recording agent, and whether the input data inhibits misregistration in a printing position between the first data and the second data on the printing paper; a first printing unit configured to, when the determination unit determines that the input image data inhibits the misregistration in a printing position, print the first data and the second data using the first recording agent and the second recording agent by fixing and transferring the data in the second printing apparatus; and a second printing unit configured to, when the determination unit does not determine that the input image data inhibits misregistration in a printing position, after the first printing apparatus feeds the paper onto which the first data is transferred and fixed with the first recording agent, to the second printing apparatus, transfer and fix again the second data with the second recording agent in the second printing apparatus.