Patent ID: 8599409
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing control apparatus which is connected to an image forming apparatus, the printing control apparatus comprising: a user interface to set a printing option for a document of an extensible markup language paper specification (XPS) file to be printed; an extraction unit to determine whether the set printing option is a printing option for pre-processing, wherein the pre-processing printing option is at least one of printing options “Banner Page Printing”, “Separator Print”, “JobStore”, “Confirm Print”, “Secure Print”, “Private JobStore”, “Common JobStore”, and “Reserve Print”; a generation unit to generate a setting file containing the printing option if the printing option is the pre-processing printing option; a conversion unit to convert the XPS file to include the generated setting file; and a controller to transmit the converted XPS file to the image forming apparatus, wherein the pre-processing printing option is performed by the image forming apparatus prior to a parsing operation for the XPS file.