Patent ID: 9025987
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A printing control apparatus comprising: a determination unit that determines whether a limit to prohibit printing using a spot color printing material is imposed on, out of a plurality of objects included in document data, an object set to be printed using the spot color printing material; and a control unit that controls to prohibit issuance of a rendering command to print the object using the spot color printing material when said determination unit has determined that the limit to prohibit the printing using the spot color printing material is imposed on the object set to be printed using the spot color printing material, wherein said determination unit determines whether the object set to be printed using the spot color printing material is an object including secure information, or determines whether a color mode of print settings when printing the document data matches a color mode of the document data, wherein a marker is set in a page including an object set to be printed using the spot color printing material and determined by said determination unit as an object on which the limit to prohibit the printing using the spot printing material is imposed.