Patent ID: 8610913

Claim:
A server apparatus comprising: a creation unit configured to create association information that associates one or a plurality of image forming apparatuses with one or a plurality of printer drivers that correspond to the one or the plurality of image forming apparatuses; a data storage unit configured to store the association information created by the creation unit; a driver storage unit configured to store the printer drivers; a transmission unit configured to transmit a list of the association information stored in the data storage unit to a client apparatus in response to a request from the client apparatus; a reception unit configured to receive association information selected from the list of the association information from the client apparatus; a distribution unit configured to acquire a printer driver that corresponds to the association information selected from the list from the driver storage unit and distribute the acquired printer driver to a predetermined client apparatus, in such a way as to install a logical printer of an image forming apparatus that corresponds to the association information selected from the list and received by the reception unit on the predetermined client apparatus; and a setting unit configured to set a first creation mode or a second creation mode as a creation mode if the creation unit creates association information, wherein, if association information created in a state where the second creation mode is set does not associate an image forming apparatus with a printer driver in a one-to-one relationship, the creation unit develops the association information into association information that associates the image forming apparatus with the printer driver in a one-to-one relationship and store the developed association information in the data storage unit, and further the creation unit stores association information created in a state where the first creation mode is set in the data storage unit without performing the development.