Patent ID: 7307742

Claim:
An information processing method carried out in an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with an output device having a plurality of box areas, to which respective print setting information is set, for storing received print data without printing the print data until a print instruction is given, said method comprising: a setting step of setting print setting information to be applied to print data to be generated; a specifying step of specifying a box area from the plurality of box areas; a display control step of displaying the print setting information set to the box area specified in said specifying step; a designation step of designating execution of a print process based on the print setting information displayed in said display control step; and a generating step of, when the execution of the print process is designated in said designated step, generating first print data which includes (a) instruction information for causing the output device to execute the print process based on the print setting information set to the box area specified in said specifying step and (b) the print setting information set in said setting step, and on the other hand, when the execution of the print process is not designated in said designation step, generating second print data based on the print setting information set in said setting step, wherein said generating step generates the first print data such that the output device executes the print process based on the print setting information set to the box area specified in said specifying step, without executing the print process based on the print setting information set in said setting step, in response to an instruction for printing the first print data stored in the specified box area.