Information processing apparatus, printing apparatus, and information processing system

A printing apparatus comprising:

• a processor configured to:
• accept a job in which print data to be printed in one printing apparatus included in a plurality of printing apparatuses is converted into a raster image, from a process management apparatus that manages print processes of the plurality of printing apparatuses;
• convert the print data included in the accepted job into the raster image;
• and
• transmit the raster image to an outside without performing self-print of the converted raster image.

An information processing system comprising:

• a process management apparatus;
• and
• a plurality of printing apparatuses,
• wherein the process management apparatus
• acquires job execution information indicating current job in a queue and an execution status of a print job to be executed by each printing apparatus from the plurality of printing apparatuses,
• extracts, in a case in which a predetermined condition regarding processing of converting print data into a raster image is satisfied in one printing apparatus, another printing apparatus capable of executing the processing of converting the print data into the raster image from among other printing apparatuses other than the one printing apparatus by using the execution information,
• causes the other printing apparatus, that is extracted, to execute the processing of converting the print data of a print job scheduled to be printed in the one printing apparatus into the raster image, and
• performs control to transmit the raster image created by the other printing apparatus to the one printing apparatus, and
• each of the plurality of printing apparatuses
• accepts a print job in which the print data to be printed in the one printing apparatus is converted into the raster image, from the process management apparatus,
• converts the print data included in the accepted print job into the raster image, and
• transmits the converted raster image for printing by the one printing apparatus.