Patent ID: 7609404

Claim:
A printing control apparatus in a printing system, the printing system comprising a terminal apparatus; a plurality of printer apparatuses connected to the terminal apparatus; and a printing management apparatus connected to the printing system, the printing control apparatus comprising: a reception unit that receives a print job sent by the terminal apparatus; a transmission unit that sends the print job received by the reception unit to the printing management apparatus; a print job requesting unit that sends the printing management apparatus a print job send request requesting at least one print job that has been sent by another printing control apparatus that is different from the printing control apparatus; an output unit that receives a print job sent by the printing management apparatus in response to the print job send request from the print job requesting unit, and sends the received print job to the printer apparatus; a list requesting unit that sends to the printing management apparatus a print job list information send request requesting a list of at least one print job stored in the printing management apparatus; and a list information reception unit that receives print job list information sent from the printing management apparatus in response to the list information send request from the list requesting unit.