1. An image forming apparatus in which a client terminal and a printer are connected to a communication network, comprising: an image capturing part provided in a vicinity of the printer; a recognizing part to sense a person approaching the printer and to recognize an identity of the person, based on a face image of an image captured by the image capturing part; and a control part to control the printer to perform a print job issued by the person, based on a recognition output from the recognizing part.