Patent ID: 8437021

Claim:
A printing system comprising: a job control server for performing print job transmission to an initial image forming apparatus, the job control server comprising: a detection unit configured to detect access control information of a print job, the access control information being issued by an external authentication server based on user authentication information; a verification unit configured to verify whether or not the access control information detected by the detection unit is issued by the external authentication server; a deletion unit configured to perform deleting the access control information detected by the detection unit and verified to be issued by the external authentication server; and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the initial image forming apparatus, the print job with the access control information deleted; and a management apparatus comprising: a search unit configured to perform a search to find image forming apparatuses; an identification unit configured to identify that the found image forming apparatuses cannot verify the access control information; a selection unit configured to select one among the image forming apparatuses found by the search unit; a setting unit configured to set the selected image forming apparatus as a print job output destination of a proxy server and set the initial image forming apparatus so as to refuse the print job from other than the job control server, if the initial image forming apparatus is identified by the identification unit and is selected; and a delivery unit configured to deliver, to an information processing apparatus, a setup program for a printer driver using the job control server as a print job transmission destination to which a print job is transmitted from the information processing apparatus.