Patent ID: 8289544

Claim:
A printing system including a printing device and an information processing device which is configured to communicate with the printing device, the printing system comprising: a first storage configured to store a plurality of print jobs corresponding to a plurality of print requests issued by the information processing device, the plurality of print jobs including a first reference job; a processor configured to execute instructions to perform operations comprising: identifying a request source of each of the plurality of print jobs stored in the first storage; judging whether there exists, among the plurality of print jobs, at least one close job which is defined such that a difference between a print start time of the first reference job and a print start time of the at least one close job is within a reference period and a request source of the close job has a predetermined relationship with a request source of the first reference job; changing the print start time of the first reference job and the print start time of the at least one close job to a time close to a print start time of a second reference job if the at least one close job exists; maintaining the print start time of the first reference job and the print start time of each of the other of the plurality of print jobs if the first judging unit judges that no close job exists; and executing a print process regarding the plurality of print jobs when the current time coincides with each of the print start times of the plurality of print jobs.