Patent ID: 8368913

Claim:
An image processing system comprising: a reading unit configured to read an image on an original; a printing unit configured to print out the image read by the reading unit; a detecting unit configured to detect a balance of a credit from a user; a confirmation unit configured to confirm, when the original read by the reading unit has a plurality of pages, whether or not a total charge necessary for execution of a print process for printing the plurality of pages can be paid off using the balance before the printing unit starts the printing; a setting unit configured to set whether or not the confirmation by the confirmation unit is to be executed; a control unit configured to control, in a case where the original read by the reading unit has a plurality of pages and the setting unit sets that the confirmation by the confirmation unit is to be executed, the printing unit to start the printing after the reading unit completes the reading of the original and the confirmation unit confirms that the total charge necessary for execution of the print process for printing the plurality of pages can be paid off using the balance, and to control, in a case where the original read by the reading unit has a plurality of pages and the setting unit sets that the confirmation by the confirmation unit is not to be executed, the printing unit to start the printing before the reading unit completes the reading of the original, without executing the confirmation by the confirmation unit.