Patent ID: 8643880

Claim:
A printing control apparatus comprising: a file obtaining section that obtains a specified file, which includes one or more sub-files of a first type and a sub-file of a second type; and a print control section that controls a print section to execute printing according to the specified file, wherein the one or more sub-files of the first type includes one or more sets of image data, wherein the sub-file of the second type includes sets of image information that corresponds to the sets of image data included in the one or more sub-files of the first type, wherein the corresponding sets of image information include image selection information that indicates whether each set of image data corresponding to the image information is selected, wherein the print control section controls the print section to print an image based on the selected image data corresponding to the image selection information, wherein during a specified mode, when a first sub-file of the first type includes M (M being an integer equal to or greater than 1) sets of selected image data and a second sub-file of the first type includes N (N being an integer equal to or greater than 1) sets of selected image data, the print control section controls the print section to obtain a first printing result in which M images based on the M sets of selected image data are printed on a first print medium, and N images based on the N sets of selected image data are printed on a second print medium, which is different from the first print medium, wherein the sub-file of the second type further includes layout selection information which indicates a selected layout, wherein in the specified mode, when the layout selection information indicates a first layout, the print control section controls the print section to obtain the first printing result.