Patent ID: 7236260
Filing Date: 2007-06-26
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus for generating print data to be printed by a printing apparatus through a network, the information processing apparatus comprising: data generation means for generating device-dependent-format data to be printed by the printing apparatus using a printer driver corresponding to the printing apparatus; obtaining means for obtaining device-independent-format data; transmission control means for transmitting, to a print job management apparatus, reservation job data consisting of device-dependent-format data and device-independent-format data; display means for displaying a list of print jobs, reserved in the print job management apparatus, to be reprinted after print data is output to the printing apparatus; first judgment means for judging one print job selected by a user from among the print jobs displayed by said display means; and second judgment means for judging a printing apparatus to which the print job judged by said first judgment means is to be output, wherein said data generation means receives the device-independent-format data from the print job management apparatus and generates the device-dependent-format data using another printer driver, if the printing apparatus judged by said second judgment means is different from the printing apparatus of an original output destination, wherein the device-dependent-format data is data generated by a printer driver corresponding to a printing apparatus that prints out the print data, and the device-independent-format data is data generated prior to a generation process by a printer driver corresponding to a printing apparatus that prints out the print data.