Patent ID: 8072621

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a generating unit configured to generate a job ticket for one-side printing, wherein, in the job ticket, a plurality of sheets are set to have respective color attributes; a selecting unit configured to select a job ticket discrimination mode or an image data discrimination mode for color attribute determination; a first analyzing unit configured to analyze a color attribute of image data arranged on a first sheet of the plurality of sheets; a second analyzing unit configured to analyze a color attribute of an annotation arranged on the first sheet; a third analyzing unit configured to analyze a color attribute described in the job ticket for the first sheet, without analyzing the color attribute of the image data arranged on the first sheet; and a determining unit configured to determine the color attribute of the first sheet based on analysis results obtained by the first and second analyzing units, if the selecting unit selects the image data discrimination mode, and determine the color attribute of the first sheet based on an analysis result obtained by the third analyzing unit, if the selecting unit selects the job ticket discrimination mode.