Patent ID: 8375388

Claim:
An information processing apparatus in communication with a printing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising: a processor and a memory; a first discrimination unit constructed to discriminate whether a print job to be executed exists; a second discrimination unit constructed to discriminate whether a current print job and a next print job succeeding to the current print job are generated by a specific application that requires combining of print jobs; a third discrimination unit constructed to discriminate whether a number of copies for the current print job and the next print job each is one; and a combining unit constructed to combine the current print job with the next print job when the first discrimination unit discriminates that a print job to be executed exists, when the second discrimination unit discriminates that the current print job and the next print job are generated by the specific application, and when the third discrimination unit discriminates that the number of copies for the current print job and the next print job each is one.