Patent ID: 7127715

Claim:
An image outputting apparatus connected to other image outputting apparatuses via a communication medium, comprising: a generating unit adapted to generate a job in response to an output request received via said communication medium; an acquiring unit adapted to acquire job information of at least one of said other image outputting apparatuses when the job generated by said generating unit is not executable by said image outputting apparatus; a transferring unit adapted to transfer the job to at least one of said other image outputting apparatuses based on the job information acquired by said acquiring unit, wherein said transferring unit transfers the job to said at least one of the other image outputting apparatuses when the job can be transferred to at least one of said other image outputting apparatuses; and a controlling unit adapted to store the job in a storing unit in said image outputting apparatus when there are no other image outputting apparatuses to which the job can be transferred and to execute the job stored in said storing unit by said image outputting apparatus when said image outputting apparatus comes into an executable state.