Patent ID: 8953207
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A printing control apparatus for performing preflight check on manuscript data made up of a plurality of pages in variable printing, the apparatus comprising: a use information obtainment unit for obtaining first use information indicating pages in which a reusable part in the manuscript data is used, the reusable parts being each an image or a form, and second use information indicating pages having the same resource content in the manuscript data; an object page determination unit for determining object pages to be subjected to the preflight check from the plurality of pages, based on the first use information and the second use information; wherein the object page determination unit sets, as the object pages, a union of any page that one of the parts indicated by the first use information is used, and any page that one of the resources indicated by the second use information is used; an object page check unit for performing the preflight check on the object pages; and an output unit for outputting a result of the preflight check.