To provide an image forming apparatus that enables interrupt processing by considering intention of a user without the need for troublesome setting in advance and also even if all of the job-waiting users do not answer, and to provide a network printer system and its control method and program.
An interrupt notification part 102 of a composite machine 1 that receives an interrupt printing request notifies the fact that there is the interrupt printing request to a terminal 2 in execution of printing processing and waiting for execution thereof, which are stored in a terminal storage part 101. An order decision part 106 decides a printing order on the basis of the answer received from the terminal 2 within a time limit and the answer of the terminal that has not answered within the time limit, which is stored in a user setting storage part 105.
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Takao Ito
Jiro Higuchi