Patent ID: 8009304

Claim:
A printing control apparatus comprising: a display unit configured to display a dialogue for allowing a user to select color or monochrome mode setting from setting of printing modes and a dialogue for allowing the user to select color or monochrome setting from setting of colors of a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image; a first receiving unit configured to receive the color or monochrome mode setting selected by the user via the dialogue; a second receiving unit configured to receive the color or monochrome setting selected by the user via the dialogue; and a controlling unit configured to control printing such that: an image including a manuscript and the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image is printed in color when the printing mode setting received by the first receiving unit is the color mode setting, the image including the manuscript and the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image is printed in monochrome when the printing mode setting received by the first receiving unit is the monochrome mode setting and the setting of the color of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image received by the second receiving unit is the monochrome setting, and the color setting is changed to the monochrome setting when the printing mode setting received by the first receiving unit is the monochrome mode setting and the setting of the color of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image received by the second receiving unit is the color setting.