Patent ID: 7102783
Filing Date: 2006-09-05
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A printing system for using a plurality of printer drivers and issuing a plurality of print jobs to a plurality of printers corresponding to the plurality of printer drivers, said system comprising: a first display control unit configured to control the display of a first user interface in which a common print setting, which is common to the plurality of the printer drivers, can be collectively set; a second display control unit configured to control the display of an individual user interface specific to a printer driver designated from the plurality of printer drivers; an issue control unit configured to, when issuing the plurality of print jobs, issue a print job to a printer corresponding to the designated printer driver based on print settings which are set by using the first user interface and the individual user interface, and to issue a print job to another of the plurality of printers based on print settings which are set by using the first user interface without using an individual user interface; and a determining unit configured to determine a type of the designated printer driver, wherein said second display control unit changes a form of presentation of the individual user interface, in accordance with the determination result from said determining unit, wherein said determining unit determines whether the display contents of the individual user interface of the designated printer driver can be controlled by said second display control unit and controls to change a form of presentation of the individual user interface in accordance with the determination result from said determining unit, and wherein if said determining unit determines that the display contents are controllable, said second display control unit controls to display the individual user interface as an interface by which setting items to be set by the first user interface are not set.