Patent ID: 8325378
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: B41F,B42C,G03G,G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus for generating print data to be transmitted to a printing device, said information processing apparatus comprising: a first receiving unit configured to receive a designation of a bookbinding print for outputting a book to be generated based on the print data; a second receiving unit configured to receive a designation to print on a first region on a front cover of a cover sheet, a second region corresponding to a reverse side of the first region, a third region corresponding to a back cover of the cover sheet, and a fourth region corresponding to a reverse side of the third region, as a print position on the cover sheet of the book to be output based on the received designation of the bookbinding print; a generation unit configured (i) in a case where the designation to print on the first, the second, the third and the fourth regions is received and a total number of pages to be output from an application is equal to or larger than 5, to generate print data for printing pages to be output from the application onto both a sheet constituting a body of the book and the cover sheet, (ii) or in a case where the designation to print on the first, the second, the third and the fourth regions is received and the total number of pages to be output from the application is less than 5, to generate print data for printing the pages to be output from the application onto the cover sheet without printing the pages onto the sheet constituting the body of the book; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the generated print data to the printing device.