Patent ID: 8508802

Claim:
A printing control apparatus which generates print setting information for a print process in a printing apparatus, comprising: a management table creation unit configured to create, for each user, a setting management table in which a print setting value is related to a range of a value defined by a threshold for controlling printing based on results value of the print process, wherein the one threshold is at least set corresponding to a setting item which is included in the print setting information; an acquiring unit configured to acquire a current result value of the print process by using history information recorded by the printing apparatus, wherein the history information is acquired in response to a request periodically issued by the printing control apparatus; a read unit configured to read a print setting value from the setting management table, wherein the print setting value is related to the range of the value to which the current result value acquired by said acquiring unit belongs; a creation unit configured to create new print setting information containing the print setting value read by said read unit; a storage unit configured to hold the print setting information that is saved as current print setting information; a comparison unit configured to compare the new print setting information created by said creation unit with the current print setting information held in said storage unit; a distribution unit configured to distribute a printer-driver-set to a client computer and save the new print setting information in said storage unit as the current print setting information when the new print setting information is different from the current print setting information, wherein the new print setting information created by said creation unit is set to the printer driver as a default print setting, wherein a change of a print setting value of a print setting item is disabled when a mode of each print setting item in the print setting information created by said creation unit is fixed, and a change of the print setting value of the print setting item is enabled when the mode of each print setting item is variable, and wherein the new print setting information created by said creation unit is not saved in said storage unit and a printer-driver-set to which the new print setting information created by said creation unit is set is not distributed to a client computer when the new print setting information is the same to the current print setting information as a result of the comparison by said comparison unit.