Patent ID: 7677820
Filing Date: 2010-03-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A print support apparatus that prints based on printing specification information including specifications for a printed material, comprising: a printing specification information acquiring unit that acquires the printing specification information; a printing apparatus information acquiring unit that acquires printing apparatus information indicating capabilities of a plurality of printing apparatuses; a printing apparatus selecting unit that selects a printing apparatus as a printing destination among the plurality of printing apparatuses based on the printing specification information acquired by the printing specification information acquiring unit and the printing apparatus information acquired by the printing apparatus information acquiring unit; a document data acquiring unit that acquires the/a document data associated with the printing specification information; a document data processing unit that processes the document data acquired by the document data acquiring unit based on printing apparatus information indicating a capability of the printing apparatus selected by the printing apparatus selecting unit and the printing specification information acquired by the printing specification information acquiring unit; a printing setting information creating unit that creates printing setting information including a printing setting of the printing apparatus selected by the printing apparatus selecting unit based on the printing specification information acquired by the printing specification information acquiring unit; and a printing requiring unit that requires printing of the printing apparatus selected by the printing apparatus selecting unit based on the printing setting information created by the printing setting information creating unit and the document data processed by the document data processing unit.