Patent ID: 8477338

Claim:
A print job management system comprising: a job maintaining unit that stores a print job, ID information on an owner user of the print job, and model information on a job handling printer in association with each other, the job handling printer being a printing device corresponding to the print job; a user default storing unit that stores ID information on a user and information on a user default printer, including printer model information, in association with each other, the user default printer being a printing device selected as the job handling printer by default based on the printer model information when a print job of the user is generated; a determining unit that determines a specific printing device as the user default printer corresponding to a user and updates data stored in the user default storing unit by storing printer information on the specific printing device, including the specific printer's model information, in association with ID information, when ID information on the user is input using an input device associated with the specific printing device; and a job providing unit that provides a print job stored in the job maintaining unit to a job handling printer corresponding to the print job.