1. A printing system comprising: a plurality of print media processing modules which transfer print media therebetween during printing, a fault management agent associated with each of the modules for acquiring fault-related data from the respective processing module, each fault management agent including a data logging component comprising memory for logging sensed information and a fault detection unit for providing preliminary analysis of the logged information, the preliminary analysis including detection of a fault in the respective processing module; and a fault management system in communication with the fault management agents which receives fault-related data from the fault management agents, the fault management system processing the fault related data from the fault management agents to identify faults in the printing system.