Patent ID: 8294943

Claim:
A print control apparatus, comprising: a command section that causes a printing apparatus to execute a print job, in response to an input of an executive instruction of the print job, which print job causes a print subject image to be printed on a sheet, with a mark overlaying the sheet; an accepting section that accepts a processing condition for an image process of the mark, during a processing condition accepting period, which is set for every print job and is the period before the input of the executive instruction; an image processing section that performs the image process of the mark in accordance with the processing condition during the processing condition accepting period; the image processing section performing the image process upon an acceptance of the processing condition by the accepting section, and when the accepting section accepts a first processing condition to be applied to a whole of the mark and a second processing condition to be applied to a whole of the mark in this order, the image processing section: without deleting from a memory a first mark which is the mark and which has not been subjected to a first image process in accordance with the first processing condition and has not been subjected to a second image process in accordance with the second processing section, writing in the memory a second mark which is obtained by performing the first image process with respect to the first mark, and without deleting the first mark and the second mark from the memory, writing in the memory (i) a third mark obtained by performing a second image process with respect to the first mark in accordance with the second processing condition, and (ii) a fourth mark obtained by performing the second image process with respect to the second mark.