Patent ID: 6947164

Claim:
An image forming system which comprises at least one terminal and first and second image forming apparatuses connected to said terminal via a communication line, for respectively effecting image formation on image forming media based on an image forming job from said terminal, the image forming system characterized in that said terminal comprises: transmission means for transmitting an image forming job having a password to said first image forming apparatus, and said first image forming apparatus comprises: receiving means for receiving the image forming job having the password transmitted from said terminal, storage means for sequentially storing image forming jobs received by said receiving means, selecting means for selecting one of the image forming jobs having passwords, input means for inputting a password of one of the image forming jobs, determining means for determining whether the image forming job is permitted or not according to whether or not the password input by said input means and the password of the image forming job selected by said selecting means coincide, and first display means for displaying a selection screen which indicates whether or not independent image formation by said first image forming apparatus is switched to distributed image formation in said first and second image forming apparatuses when it is determined by said determining means that the image forming job is permitted.