Patent ID: 8451496
Filing Date: 2013-05-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus including a user interface that is operable to designate a print setting for a print job to be printed by a printing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising: a paper type information acquisition unit configured to acquire paper type information from the printing apparatus, as information indicating paper stored in the printing apparatus, wherein the paper type information includes information usable to determine whether an acquired paper type is one-sided printed paper that has a printed surface on which printing is already performed and an unprinted surface to be used for printing; a print setting inhibition rule management unit configured to store and manage a print setting to be designated as an inhibition rule when printing using the one-sided printed paper is performed, as print setting inhibition rule information, in association with the paper type information usable to identify the one-sided printed paper; a paper type determination unit configured to determine whether a paper setting included in the print setting designated by the user interface is a setting corresponding to the paper type information usable to identify the one-sided printed paper based on the paper type information acquired by the paper type information acquisition unit; a print setting inhibition rule determination unit configured to determine whether print setting inhibition rule information associated with the paper type information corresponding to the designated paper setting is stored and managed by the print setting inhibition rule management unit, if the paper type determination unit determines that the designated paper setting is the setting corresponding to the paper type information usable to identify the one-sided printed paper; and a control unit configured to perform control to prevent the print setting designated as an inhibition rule in the print setting inhibition rule information from being designated by the user interface, if the print setting inhibition rule determination unit determines that the print setting inhibition rule information associated with the paper type information corresponding to the designated paper setting is stored and managed by the print setting inhibition rule management unit, wherein the print setting inhibition rule information includes an alternate setting of the setting to be designated as the inhibition rule, and wherein the control unit is configured to control the user interface to change a print setting corresponding to the print setting inhibition rule information associated with the paper type information corresponding to the designated paper setting to the alternate setting of the print setting.