Patent ID: 8493585

Claim:
An image processing system comprising: a first image processing apparatus that transmits an image processing job, and a second image processing apparatus that receives the image processing job, transmitted by the first image processing apparatus and executes the received image processing job, the first image processing apparatus comprising: a generation unit that generates an image processing job to be transmitted to the second image processing apparatus, a management unit that manages a first printing amount that has already been printed by an image processing job executed within the image processing system and a second printing amount that is scheduled to be printed by an image processing job that has been transmitted from the first image processing apparatus to the second image processing apparatus and that has not yet been executed by the second image processing apparatus, a determination unit that, before the image processing job generated by the generation unit is transmitted to the second image processing apparatus, determines whether or not a total of a third printing amount that is scheduled to be printed by the generated image processing job, the first printing amount and the second printing amount exceeds a predetermined upper limit amount, a transmission unit that, when the total has been determined to not exceed the upper limit amount as a result of determination by the determination unit, transmits the generated image processing job to the second image processing apparatus, an adding unit that adds, in a case where the transmission unit transmits the generated image processing job, the third printing amount to the second printing amount to obtain a new second printing amount, and causes the management unit to manage the new second printing amount, and an update unit that, when a result of execution by the second image processing apparatus of the image processing job transmitted by the transmission unit is sent from the second image processing apparatus, updates the first printing amount and the new second printing amount, and the second image processing apparatus comprising: a receiving unit that receives the image processing job from the first image processing apparatus, a processing unit that executes the image processing job received by the receiving unit, and a notification unit that notifies the first image processing apparatus of a result of execution of the image processing job executed by the processing unit, wherein, when a result that indicates that the image processing job transmitted by the transmission unit has not been executed properly by the second image processing apparatus is sent, the update unit subtracts the third printing amount from the new second printing amount to obtain the original second printing amount, without updating the first printing amount.