Patent Document ID: 7999961
Application ID: 12118674
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A distribution printing system that controls distribution printing, comprising: a child job controller that controls generating of a plurality of child jobs for a plurality of printers based on intermediate data generated as a parent job in accordance with application data, in response to input of an instruction for distribution printing; an output controller that controls outputting each of the plurality of child jobs to a corresponding one of the plurality of printers; and a display controller that causes a display unit to display a status of the parent job, wherein said display controller causes the display unit to display an output status of the parent job as the status of the parent job before any one of the plurality of child jobs is generated, and causes the display unit to change displaying of the status of the parent job based on at least one of the plurality of child jobs after the at least one child job is generated.