Patent ID: 8856637

Claim:
A host apparatus providing a function of printing a plurality of pages on a single sheet of printing paper, comprising: a Graphic User Interface (GUI) generating unit which generates one user interface to set the function of printing a plurality of pages on a single sheet and to set individually a border attribute of each of the plurality of pages set to be printed on the single sheet; a border generating unit which generates border data by incorporating the border attribute, if the border attribute of the pages is set; and a driver control unit which converts the generated border data and print data both corresponding to the plurality of pages into a printer language; a storage unit which stores a plurality of bitmap files to express the border, and wherein when the border attribute comprises a border style which is expressed by a bitmap the driver control unit controls the GUI generating unit to generate a popup window which displays a list of the plurality of stored bitmap files such that a bitmap file is selected from the list and a display size of the selected bitmap file is set through the popup window.