Printing system

A printing system network comprising a plurality of image forming apparatuses and a plurality of personal computers connected to the printing system network, comprising:

• a first image forming apparatus configured to fail to carry out a first print job due to setting parameters of the first print job from a first personal computer;
• a job sending component configured to send the first print job to another image forming apparatus designated via an operation section of the first image forming apparatus;
• and
• a second image forming apparatus serving as the designated image forming apparatus configured to execute the first print job received from the job sending component without receiving an instruction of job execution via its own operation section.

A method of distributing a print job to an image forming apparatus in a network comprising a plurality of image forming apparatuses, comprising:

• failing to carry out a first print job by a first image forming apparatus due to setting parameters of the first print job;
• sending the first print job to another image forming apparatus designated via an operation section of the first image forming apparatus;
• and
• executing the first print job by a second image forming apparatus serving as the designated image forming apparatus without receiving an instruction of job execution via an operation section of the second image forming apparatus.