Patent ID: 7260637
Filing Date: 2007-08-21
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing control apparatus that communicates with an image forming apparatus connected via a network, comprising: registration means for registering information used in order to enable utilization of the image forming apparatus; generating means, responsive to registration of said information by said registration means, for generating setting information to set a printing-completion notification destination of printing-completion notification means of the image forming apparatus to the printing control apparatus in such a manner that notification of completion of printing can be received from the image forming apparatus; and determination means for determining, on the basis of information indicative of a printing-completion notification function possessed by the image forming apparatus, whether the image forming apparatus has a printing-completion notification function, wherein the result of the determination by said determination means is transmitted to the information processing apparatus, and wherein said determination means determines whether a printing-completion notification destination in the image forming apparatus can be stored in the image forming apparatus, and transmits the result of this determination to the information processing apparatus, and wherein if said determination means determines that the printing-completion notification destination of said image forming apparatus can be stored in the image forming apparatus, an instruction which makes a setting such that the printing-completion notification destination becomes the printing control apparatus is not generated with respect to print data, and if said determination means determines that the printing-completion notification destination cannot be stored in the image forming apparatus, the information processing apparatus is notified in such a manner that an instruction which makes a setting such that the printing-completion notification destination becomes the printing control apparatus is generated with respect to print data.