Patent ID: 7057749

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for generating print data to be printed by a printer, the information processing apparatus comprising: a setting unit adapted to set a print property specifying a manner in which the print data is to be printed via a printer driver; a special-printing-mode specification unit adapted to specify a special printing mode; a print property information generator adapted to generate print property information; and a job generator adapted to generate a print job interpretable by a printer, the print job including the print data and the print property information, wherein, when the special printing mode is not selected, the print property information generator generates, in accordance with the print property set by the setting unit, first print property information specifying a manner in which printing is performed on a first recording sheet, whereas when the special printing mode is selected, the print property information generator automatically generates, in addition to the first print property information, second print property information specifying a manner in which printing is performed on a second recording sheet, the second print property information being generated in accordance with a print property different from the print property set by the setting unit, wherein the print property information in the print job generated by the job generator is further defined as the information regarding an output format property, and wherein, when the special printing mode is selected, the job generator generates a single print job including a first group of commands indicating an output format property based on the first print property information and first print data and a second group of commands indicating an output format property based on the second print property information and second print data.