Patent ID: 9600211
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. An information processing apparatus comprising: an acquiring unit that acquires information specifying prices of pages of a to-be-printed document that is a document to be printed; a unit that receives, from a user, an input of identification information identifying at least one not-to-be-printed page that is at least one page that will not be printed among the pages of the to-be-printed document; a replacement-document-acquiring unit that acquires at least one replacement document whose total price corresponds to a total price of the at least one not-to-be-printed page, which is identified on a basis of the identification information; a printing controller that performs control in such a manner as to cause a printing mechanism to print a document obtained by replacing the at least one not-to-be-printed page of the to-be-printed document with the at least one replacement document, which has been acquired; and a billing unit that charges the user a total price of the pages of the to-be-printed document, which have been printed, and that charges a provider of the at least one replacement document a price of the at least one replacement document, which has been printed as a replacement for the at least one not-to-be-printed page.