Patent ID: 7253911
Filing Date: 2007-08-07
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
1. A control method for a printing system, the printing system including an information processing apparatus and a print device, the information processing apparatus having a printer driver designated a presentation mode as a print setting and the print device capable of executing an ordinary print process or a presentation-mode print process which makes presentation material and distribution material, the method comprising: performing by the information processing apparatus: a job issue step of issuing a single print job according to print setting set by a user via Graphical User Interface of the printer driver; performing by the print device: a judgment step of judging whether or not the single print job contains a specific command which designates the presentation mode; a step of, in a case where it is judged in said judgment step that the single print job does not contain the specific command, executing an ordinary print process; and a step of, in a case where it is judged in said judgment step that the single print job contains the specific command, executing the presentation-mode print process which makes presentation material and the distribution material from presentation material data included in the single print job corresponding to the specific command in the single print job that designates the presentation mode, wherein said information processing apparatus adds the specific command that designates the presentation mode to the single print job, the specific command is a command to designate the presentation-mode print process, a command to designate the number of copies of the distribution material made from the presentation material data included in the single print job, and a color setting command of the distribution material, and wherein, in the case where the presentation-mode print process is executed, said method further comprising: performing by the print device: a step of temporarily storing print data of the print job in a memory of a print device; a step of executing color setting of the presentation material according to the temporarily stored print data, and a step of printing the presentation material; a step of executing color setting of the distribution material according to the temporarily stored print data, and a step of executing an N-in-1 layout process for the distribution material; a step of setting the number of copies set for the distribution material, as the number of prints; and a step of printing the distribution material based on said step of executing the color setting of the distribution material, said step of executing the N-in-1 layout process and said step of setting the number of prints.