Patent ID: 6985243

Claim:
A server apparatus adapted to communicate with at least one client, each client including an image storage unit for storing print data of a print job, and a printer via a network, comprising: image storage means for storing the print data of the print job to be executed according to a print request from a client; order management means for managing a print order of the print job to be executed according to the print request from the client; transmission means for transmitting transmission permission information to the client based on the print order managed by said order management means, the transmission permission information indicating that the print data may be transmitted to said printer; termination means for determining whether a message, which indicates that the printing process of the print data has finished, is received from the client within a predetermined time in response to the transmission permission information; and control means for transmitting the print data of the print job of the print order from said image storage means to the printer when said determination means determines that the message is not received.