Patent ID: 6690477
Filing Date: 2004-02-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A printing control apparatus for generating a print job to be transmitted to a printing apparatus that prints on front and reverse sides of a printing medium, in order, said print control apparatus comprising:a storage unit adapted to store print data of a document to be printed; and a job generation unit adapted to read the print data from said storage unit, to insert a blank page on a reverse side of a printing medium when a final page of the document falls on a front side of the printing medium, and to generate a print job to be transmitted to the printing apparatus by issuing job end data according to a printing setting, wherein said job generation unit generates a print job by inserting a blank page to a reverse side of a final page of each copy of the document in a case where a printing setting of the document designates a number of copies to be printed is two or more and printing on both sides of the printing medium.