Patent ID: 8363284

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: an identifying unit configured to identify, as an identification result, a printing capability of an apparatus that is a transmission destination of first image data instructed to be printed with a transparent recording material; a determining unit configured to determine whether the apparatus as the transmission destination is able to print the first image data with the transparent recording material instructed to be printed with the transparent recording material based on the identification result of the identifying unit; and a converting unit configured to convert, in response to the determining unit determining the apparatus as the transmission destination is not able to print the first image data with the transparent recording material, the first image data into second image data that can be printed by the apparatus as the transmission destination and is formed by placing dots having a predetermined size removable at a time of copying based on information attached to the first image data, wherein, in response to the determining unit determining that the apparatus as the transmission destination is able to print the first image data with the transparent recording material, the first image data is not converted.