Patent ID: 6891634

Claim:
A multiple-printer control apparatus for controlling a plurality of printers, comprising: a print-processing capability detection unit for detecting print processing capability of each of the plurality of printers; an overall-workload detection unit for detecting overall workload including the quantity of printing to be performed using the plurality of printers that are capable of printing as determined by the print processing capability detection unit; and a printer control unit for performing control, on the basis of print processing capabilities detected by said print-processing capability detection unit and the overall workload detected by said overall-workload detection unit, in such a manner that print data, which represents at least one of images and characters to be printed, is applied to each of the plurality of printers that are capable of printing as determined by the print processing capability detection unit, and each printer of the plurality of printers prints at least one of images and characters the number of sheets whereof conforms to a number of prints.