Patent ID: 7068388

Claim:
An information processing apparatus having a spool unit which spools print jobs, for transmitting plural print jobs set as a group job for printing, comprising: a first list generating unit for obtaining a list of print jobs spooled in the spool unit in response to reception of a job grouping start instruction, and for generating a non-grouping target list of print jobs; a second list generating unit for generating a grouping target list based upon a difference between a list of print jobs spooled at the time of reception of a job grouping end instruction and the generated non-grouping target list in response to the reception of the job grouping end instruction; a member generating unit for setting print jobs as members of a group job based upon the grouping target list; and a control unit for controlling a transmitter to transmit plural print jobs, including print jobs set as the members by said member generating unit, to a printing device as the group job.