Patent ID: 8305620

Claim:
A print management apparatus comprising: a controller; a writing-image processing unit to determine whether print data, to be printed using the print management apparatus, includes both color page and monochrome page, and to generate writing-image data of the color page and writing-image data of the monochrome page from the print data; a job generation processing unit to prepare a preliminary job ticket for printing the color page and a preliminary job ticket for printing the monochrome page based on an initial job ticket set for the print data when the writing-image processing unit determines that the writing-image data includes both color page and monochrome page; a printer controller to obtain first device information of a first device unit connected to a first printer for printing the color page and second device information of a second device unit connected to a second printer for printing the monochrome page; and a print-image generation processing unit to generate device-treatment-effect-included image data having a treatment effect of the first device unit and device-treatment-effect-included image data having a treatment effect of the second device unit when the first device information and the second device information do not match, the print-image generation processing unit adding the device-treatment-effect-included image data having the treatment effect of the first device unit to the writing-image data of the color page, and adding the device-treatment-effect-included image data having the treatment effect of the second device unit to the writing-image data for the monochrome page, to generate a virtual print image of the print data based on the preliminary job ticket for printing the color page and the preliminary job ticket for printing the monochrome page; and a print-image display processing unit to display the virtual print image generated by the print-image generation processing unit.