Patent ID: 8305595
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A print control apparatus for registering a plurality of printer groups corresponding to respective printing features and controlling a print process in which print data is transmitted to one member printer included in one of the printer groups, said print control apparatus comprising: a processor and memory, cooperating to function as: a selection unit adapted to select one of the printing features in response to a user instruction for printer group selection; a registration unit adapted to register member printers forming one of the plurality of printer groups corresponding to the printing feature selected by said selection unit, in response to a user instruction for member printer registration, wherein the member printers are selected from a plurality of printers on a network; a displaying unit adapted to display, after a print process is started by an application program, a list via a user interface for the print process, wherein said displaying unit lists the member printers registered by said registration unit via the user interface and shows status information and location information of each of the member printers on the list; a designation unit adapted to designate, as an output target printer to be used in a current print process, one of the member printers on the list, such that any of the member printers not designated by said designation unit is temporarily removed from the current print process; and a transmission unit adapted to transmit print data formed from data supplied by the application program to the one member printer designated by said designation unit, wherein said displaying unit displays the list via the user interface such that the designated member printer and the removed member printer are listed for a next print process without re-registration by said registration unit.