In a distributed printing system in which an original print job is divided into a plurality of distributed print jobs that are printed on a plurality of output devices, in order to stop outputting the pages subsequent to a predetermined page in the original print job, an instruction for outputting up to the predetermined page is inputted. It is determined which of the output devices outputs the distributed print job that includes the predetermined page. Based on this determination, an instruction to stop outputting the pages subsequent to the predetermined page is issued to the output device that outputs the distributed print job that includes the predetermined page.