Patent ID: 8502993

Claim:
A print data generating apparatus for generating print data to be sent to a printing apparatus for printing image data on a print medium, comprising: a reading unit for reading an original to generate the image data; an information storage unit for registering a plurality of printing apparatus and storing print guarantee area information as a print area, in which print quality is guaranteed, defined within a size of the print medium and corresponding to each of the printing apparatus; an operation unit for selecting a printer name corresponding to the one of the printing apparatus stored in the information storage unit, and for receiving a first file name input by an operator; an e-mail creation unit for attaching the image data read with the reading unit as an attachment file to an e-mail, and for adding the printer name selected with the operation unit to the first file name to create a second file name of the attachment file; a printer selection unit for selecting one of the printing apparatus; and an editing unit for obtaining the print guarantee area information corresponding to the one of the printing apparatus, and editing the image data according to the print guarantee area information stored in the information storage unit, wherein said information storage unit is arranged to store the print guarantee area information according to each of a plurality of different sheet sizes.