Patent ID: 8683330

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, connectable to a printing apparatus that executes a printing operation based on print information generated by the information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising: a user interface to obtain printout conditions input by a user's operation, and to generate printing conditions data based on the printout conditions; a graphics unit to generate the print information from image data to be printed out by the printing operation based on the generated printing conditions data, the generated print information executable for the printing operation by the printing apparatus; and a print information storing unit to store the generated print information before transmitting the generated print information to the printing apparatus, wherein, when generating the print information, the graphics unit generates job identification information for identifying the printing operation that is settable based on the input printout conditions and a print information generation instruction, wherein the graphics unit correlates the generated job identification information and the generated print information, and stores the generated job identification information and the generated print information to the print information storing unit, wherein, when generating the print information, the user interface generates job identification information for the printing operation that is settable based on the printout conditions and a print information generation instruction, wherein the user interface obtains the print information, correlated with the generated job identification information from the print information storing unit, wherein the user interface activates a print information use unit, and inputs the obtained print information to the activated print information use unit for presenting information, related to the printing operation, to the user.