Printing system, image forming apparatus, server, and information processing apparatus

An image forming apparatus to which a plurality of client PCs are connected through a network, wherein

• the image forming apparatus comprises a plurality of ejected-paper trays, and includes a function of creating a printing record list including information on at least the client PC that requested the printing of the printing job, the logged-in user, and the date and the time of the printing when the image forming apparatus executes printing of a printing job received from a client PC, and a function of executing the updating processing to change the fetch flags in the printing record list from “unfetched” to “fetched” for the printed paper sheets that were checked to be fetched from the ejected-paper trays, a function of managing the state of fetch of the printed paper sheets from the ejected-paper trays, and a function of giving the information of unfetched printed paper sheet to the user of the client PC that provided the printing job of the printed paper sheet for which the fetch flag indicates “unfetched”.

A server to which an image forming apparatus and a client PC are connected through a network, wherein

• the server comprises a function of creating a printing record list based on printing execution result information sent from the image forming apparatus, a function of executing an updating processing to change the fetch flags in the printing record list from “unfetched” to “fetched” for the information of unfetched printed paper sheet that the image forming apparatus requests to delete, a function of managing the state of fetch of the printed paper sheets in the image forming apparatus, and a function of giving the information of unfetched printed paper sheet to the user of the client PC that provided the printing job of the printed paper sheet for which the fetch flag shows “unfetched”.

A client PC to which an image forming apparatus and a server are connected through a network, wherein

• the client PC inquires of the server about whether information of unfetched printed paper sheet exists when an event registered in advance in the server occurs, and displays the information of unfetched printed paper sheet when that information is sent from the server.