Patent ID: 8456703

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, comprising: a first generation unit that generates a first print job to print a printed product including text; and a second generation unit that, if paper used to print a first page of the first print job is not tab paper, generates a second print job to print related information to identify post-processing performed by a post-processing apparatus on the printed product of the first print job, for the paper of a size equal to the size of the paper used to print the first page and, if the paper used to print the first page is the tab paper, generates the second print job to print the related information on the paper of a type different from the tab paper of the size determined based on the size of the tab paper used to print the first page; wherein the second generation unit generates the second print job to print an object to be printed on the first page of the first print job together with the related information; and the second generation unit determines whether the first page of the first print job contains an object to be printed, and generates, if it is determined that the first page of the first print job contains no object to be printed, the second print job to print an object to be printed on another page which contains any object of the first print job together with the related information.