Patent ID: 7518744

Claim:
A print control apparatus which allows a printer to perform printing in accordance with a print instruction issued from an application program, the print control apparatus comprising: a printer capability data storage unit that acquires printer capability data by issuing an inquiry to a printer driver to control the printer and stores the printer capability data of each model of printer, wherein the printer capability data indicates capability of the printer; a printer acquiring unit that acquires a model of the printer used for printing when the application program issues the print instruction; a formatted print list creation unit that extracts only formatted prints containing required printing conditions executable by the printer used for printing out of a plurality of formatted prints that is respectively composed of required printing conditions and optional printing conditions, and displays a list of the extracted formatted prints on a display; a formatted print specification acceptance unit that accepts a selection of a formatted print in the list displayed on the display; a print condition setup unit that sets the optional printing conditions of the formatted print selected from the list within a range of capability of the printer used for printing by referring to the printer capability data of the model that is acquired by the printer acquiring unit; and a printer driver that allows the printer used for printing to perform printing under the required printing conditions of the formatted print selected from the list and the optional printing conditions set by the print condition setup unit.