Patent ID: 6934046

Claim:
An information processor for generating printing data to be transmitted to a printer comprising: an intermediate code conversion unit for converting data to be printed which is generated by an application into a print job of an intermediate code format and temporarily storing the print job in association with print setting information for the data to be printed; a composition instructing unit for instructing a plurality of print jobs of the intermediate code format converted by said intermediate code conversion unit to be composed together so as to generate one composed job; a discrimination unit for analyzing the print setting information of the plurality of print jobs stored by said intermediate code conversion unit when said composition instructing unit instructs the plurality of print jobs to be composed together so as to obtain one composed job, and for discriminating whether the plurality of print jobs have a same print setting or different print settings for a certain print setting item for which each print job is allowed to have one unique print setting; a confirmation message display unit for, if said discrimination unit discriminates that the plurality of print jobs have different print settings for the print setting item, displaying a confirmation message indicating that the different print settings should be unified to a common print setting; and a setting unifier unit for generating the print setting information for the composed job based on the common print setting, after said confirmation message display unit displays the confirmation message.