Patent ID: 8259320

Claim:
An image management system, comprising: an image output apparatus to execute a job for outputting image data to various types of media; and a server, wherein the image output apparatus and the server are connected via a communication network, and the image output apparatus comprises: an obtaining unit to obtain user information when the image output apparatus executes the job, a history storage unit to accumulate and store the user information which is obtained by the obtaining unit and the image data which is output when the image output apparatus executes the job as history information so as to correspond to one another, a history transfer unit to transfer the history information of the plurality of jobs stored in the history storage unit to the server at predetermined timing in a lump, and a control unit to inhibit the execution of the job when the history information of the plurality of jobs is being transferred in a lump to the server by the history transfer unit, and the server comprises: a receiving unit to receive the history information which is transferred from the image output apparatus, and a history management unit to accumulate and store the history information which is received by the receiving unit.