Patent ID: 7929157

Claim:
An information processing method performed in an information processing apparatus which communicates with one or more printing apparatuses, comprising: designating a first printing apparatus; setting either a first mode in which a user can designate both a function which a printing apparatus has and a function which the printing apparatus does not have, or a second mode in which the user can designate a function which a printing apparatus has and cannot designate a function which the printing apparatus does not have; changing from the first printing apparatus as a designated printing apparatus to a second printing apparatus; changing from the second mode to the first mode when the second mode is set and the first printing apparatus is replaced by the second printing apparatus as the designated printing apparatus; maintaining the first mode when the first mode is set and the first printing apparatus is replaced by the second printing apparatus as the designated printing apparatus; displaying a print setting screen such that the user can designate a function which the second printing apparatus has and a function which the second printing apparatus does not have after the second mode is changed to the first mode in said changing step or after the first mode is maintained in the maintaining step; setting the function which the second printing apparatus has and the function which the second printing apparatus does not have in accordance with an instruction received via the print setting screen; changing from the first mode to the second mode after setting the functions in said setting step; and displaying a changing result of the function which the second printing apparatus does not have when the first mode is changed to the second mode.