公开(公告)号：US11740847B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-29

申请号：US17891700

申请日：2022-08-19

Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.

Inventor： Jason Bernard Lo ,  Alcuin Allan Andrade

IPC: G06F3/12

CPC classification number: G06F3/1275 ,  G06F3/1207 ,  G06F3/1211 ,  G06F3/1263 ,  G06F3/1267 ,  G06F3/1288

Abstract: An image forming system includes a terminal device, a management apparatus, and a plurality of image forming apparatuses. The terminal device includes a first controller that generates a print job, and transmits the print job to the management apparatus. The management apparatus includes a storage queue, and a second controller that stores the print job in the storage queue upon receipt thereof, determines one of the image forming apparatuses that completes a printing operation based on the print job most rapidly, as transfer destination, on a basis of printing ability of each of the image forming apparatuses, and transmits the print job to the image forming apparatus determined as the transfer destination. The image forming apparatuses each include an image forming device, and a third controller that causes the image forming device to execute the printing operation based on the print job, upon receipt thereof.