Patent ID: 8730490

Claim:
An information processing apparatus having a printing control program for cooperating with a plurality of plug-ins that can be added thereto and removed therefrom and reading a plug-in of the plurality of plug-ins to perform a printing process, the information processing apparatus comprising: a storage unit that stores therein plug-in information in which a process indicated by a printing-process-related notification is associated with a plug-in that is read to perform the process indicated by the printing-process-related notification, wherein the program causes the information processing apparatus to function as: a receiving unit that receives a printing-process-related notification; a determining unit that determines, when the receiving unit receives the printing-process-related notification, a plug-in to be read from the plurality of plug-ins in accordance with the process indicated by the received printing-process-related notification by referring to the plug-in information; a reading unit that reads the plug-in that is determined by the determining unit from the plurality of plug-ins; and a calling unit that calls the plug-in read by the reading unit.