Patent ID: 8081327

Claim:
An information processing apparatus comprising: a generation unit configured to generate print job data in accordance with a printing instruction from an application; a display unit configured to display a screen for designating whether or not to execute encryption processing of the print job data generated by the generation unit; an encryption processing unit configured to perform encryption processing of the print job data when execution of the encryption processing of the print job data is designated on the screen; and a control unit configured to transmit the print job data encrypted by the encryption processing unit to a printing apparatus, in a case where the execution of the encryption processing is designated via the screen displayed by the display unit and a designation to save the print job data in the printing apparatus is not made, perform cancellation processing of the print job data so as not transmit the print job data to the printing apparatus, in a case where the execution of the encryption processing is designated via the screen display the display unit and the designation to save the print job data in the printing apparatus is made, and transmit the print job data without encryption by the encryption processing unit to the printing apparatus, in a case where other processing is designated.