Patent ID: 8773691

Claim:
A printing control apparatus, comprising: a reception unit configured to receive a print request from a user; an acquisition unit configured to acquire a printing apparatus usage history of the user who made the print request and print setting information registered by the user who made the print request; a determination unit configured to determine, based on the usage history and the print setting information acquired by the acquisition unit, a printing apparatus which has been used by the user who made the print request and which is capable of printing based on the print setting information registered by that user, as an execution destination for printing based on the print request; a second determination unit configured to determine whether the printing apparatus determined by the determination unit is in a state capable of printing; a second acquisition unit configured to, if it is determined by the second determination unit that the determined printing apparatus is not capable of printing, acquire information concerning printing apparatuses used by the user who made the print request within a predetermined period based on usage information about the printing apparatuses by the user who made the print request; and a notification unit configured to notify the user who made the print request of the information concerning printing apparatuses acquired by the second acquisition unit.