Patent ID: 7307749

Claim:
An information processing apparatus for generating printing data to be transmitted to a printer, comprising: storage means for storing data to be printed as a print job in association with print setting information for the data to be printed; composition instructing means for selecting a plurality of print jobs stored by said storage means, and for providing a composition instruction that instructs the plurality of print jobs to be composed together so as to generate one composed job; discrimination means for analyzing the print setting information of the plurality of print jobs stored by said storage means when said composition instructing means provides the composition instruction, and for discriminating whether the plurality of print jobs have different print settings for a certain print setting item for which each of the plurality of print jobs is allowed to have a unique print setting; confirmation message display means for, if said discrimination means discriminates that the plurality of print jobs have different print settings for the print setting item, displaying a confirmation message; and setting unifier means for unifying the print setting of the print setting item for the composed job, after the confirmation message is displayed by said confirmation message display means.