Patent ID: 8400654

Claim:
A print control apparatus comprising: an input unit, implemented on a processor, that acquires print job definition data by acquiring print data including print job definition data and content data and interpreting the acquired print data; a plurality of printer setting converters, implemented on the processor, that convert the print job definition data into printer setting data for setting a printer; a printer setting distributor, implemented on the processor that divides the print job definition data and distributes the print job definition data to the plurality of printer setting converters, and receives the printer setting data that has been converted by the plurality of printer setting converters; a transmission unit that receives the converted printer setting data and the content data through the printer setting distributor and transmits the printer setting data and the content data to the printer; and a processing cost information storage unit that stores processing cost information of the plurality of printer setting converters for each item of the print job definition data, wherein the print job definition data is distributed to the plurality of printer setting converters according to a distribution table indicating whether the print job definition data is to be converted into a PJL (Printer Job Language) as a control code or to be converted into a PDL (Page Description Language) as a page description language; the printer setting data includes the PJL and the PDL; and the printer setting distributor distributes items of the print job definition data to the plurality of printer setting converters with reference to the processing cost information.