Patent ID: 8582160

Claim:
A printing system comprising: an information processing apparatus comprising: a job transmission unit configured to transmit a job to be printed to a printing apparatus; a job list request unit configured to request from the printing apparatus a stored job list that is stored in the printing apparatus; a determination unit configured to determine a plurality of jobs to be collectively printed and a printing order of the plurality of jobs from the stored job list received from the printing apparatus; a job list creation unit configured to create a job list based on the plurality of jobs to be collectively printed and the printing order of the plurality of jobs determined by the determination unit; and a first job list transmission unit configured to transmit the job list created by the job list creation unit to the printing apparatus; and the printing apparatus storing the job received from the information processing apparatus in the stored job list, the printing apparatus comprising: a second job list transmission unit configured to acquire the stored job list and transmit the stored job list to the information processing apparatus according to a request from the job list request unit; a controlling unit configured to control rasterizing of an image of each job upon receipt of each job to be printed from the job transmission unit and configured to control printing of the plurality of jobs listed in the job list in the printing order according to the job list received from the information processing apparatus, wherein the printing unit prints rasterized images of the plurality of jobs only after receiving the job list from the information processing apparatus; and an expansion program execution platform embedded in the printing apparatus, on which an expansion program is executed, wherein the second job list transmission unit and the controlling unit are provided in accordance with the expansion program executed on the expansion program execution platform.