A method and apparatus executes a printing job on a plurality of printer facilities by dividing the printing job into partial jobs and selectively assigning each partial job to a respective printer facility. The assigning of the partial jobs to the printer facilities attains an improved throughput for the printing job. The method structures a job termination pattern by assigning a partial job to a particular printer facility that will complete earlier than a partial job assigned to another printer facility by a time difference based on a predetermined non-zero time interval. Such a time interval may be defined by an operator in advance. All printer facilities involved in a printing job may be assigned respective partial jobs so that their sequence of completion time instants, in compliance with the user-selected time interval, will constitute a monotonously non-decreasing series.