Patent ID: 6830390
Filing Date: 2004-12-14
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
A host computer for communicating with a printer device having a stapling function for binding together a plurality of sheets, for generating a print data suited to the printer device, and for transmitting the print data to the printer device, comprising:acquisition means for acquiring paper feed tray information concerning said printer device from the printer device to which said print data is to be actually transmitted before print data is transmitted to the printer device; display control means for controlling a screen display concerning the setting of staplable positions on the basis of said paper feed tray information acquired by said acquisition means from the printer device to indicate unstaplable positions on a printing paper that has been actually loaded in a paper feed tray of said printer device; and binding location setting means for setting sequentially paper size information, R/non-R information and stapling direction information, wherein said display control means gradually decreases the number of staplable positions which can be selected, when the stapling direction information is set by said binding location setting means, after the paper size information and the R/non-R information set.