Patent ID: 8400674

Claim:
A print control apparatus, comprising at least a processor, to process a print job of providing instructions to perform printing using a plurality of color toners and a special toner for adjusting glossiness, the print control apparatus comprising: a determining unit configured to determine whether a sum of a total amount of the color toners used and a predetermined amount of the special toner used exceeds an upper limit of an amount of toner used in printing in a printing apparatus specified in the print job in an image formed on the basis of the print job; a dividing unit configured to divide the print job into a first print job using the color toners and a second print job using the special toner in accordance with a ratio in the entire image of an image area where the determining unit determines that the sum of the total amount of the color toners used and the predetermined amount of the special toner used exceeds the upper limit; a transmitting unit configured to transmit the first and second print jobs generated by the dividing unit to the printing apparatus; and a display instruction unit configured to provide instructions to allow a display unit to display a guide to set a printout generated on the basis of the first print job using the color toners to a paper feeder of the printing apparatus when printing based on the second print job using the special toner is to be performed.