Patent ID: 8582170

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire print data from an information processing apparatus; a setting unit configured to receive a user operation executed via an input device and configured to execute a print setting for the print data, wherein the print setting is configured to be in a disabled state that prevents the user from performing an operation of the print setting and an enabled state that permits the user to perform an operation of the print setting; and an instruction unit configured to instruct the acquisition unit to acquire the print data based on a print instruction for executing printing and configured to instruct the setting unit to receive an input by the user operation for executing the print setting for the print data, wherein the print setting is an operation for designating a range of pages to be printed and is in a disabled state that prevents the user from designating a range of pages to be printed from the print data, wherein the acquisition unit is configured to receive, from the information processing apparatus according to an instruction input by the instruction unit, first information that is part of the print data from which the acquisition unit can acquire second information that is different from the first information, wherein the second information is page quantity information representing a number of pages of the print data, and wherein the setting unit is configured to receive the user operation according to an instruction input by the instruction unit and to change, in response to the acquisition unit notifying the page quantity information to the setting unit, the print setting from being in the disabled state to being in an enable state such that the user can designate a range of pages to be printed from the print data.