The image forming apparatus includes a printing device that performs printing on the basis of output image data; a transmission processing unit that generates image log data from the output image data of one page and transmits the generated image log data to a server apparatus that stores image log data corresponding to a print job of plural pages; and a job executing unit that (a) starts a waiting status before a generation process of output image data of a next page when the generation process of the output image data of the aforementioned one page is completed, and (b) releases the waiting status after the image log data corresponding to the output image data of the aforementioned one page is generated and transmitted to the server apparatus by the transmission processing unit.