Patent ID: 7532352

Claim:
A network system in which a plurality of image forming apparatuses capable of performing an image forming process for received data and outputting the data connect to each other communicably, each image forming apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store data having undergone an image forming process by the image forming apparatus in correspondence with property information on the data so as to allow another image forming apparatus to access the data; a holding unit configured to hold profile information of the image forming apparatus; a comparison unit configured to compare the profile information of the image forming apparatus with property information corresponding to data which has undergone the image forming process and is stored in a storage unit of another image forming apparatus; and a display unit configured to display, before printing a data which have undergone the image forming process by the other image forming apparatus, whether the data can be printed in a first image quality or a second image quality which is lower than the first image quality, wherein the image quality of the data is determined in accordance with a comparison result of said comparison unit.