Patent ID: 7760373

Claim:
A print control apparatus comprising: a first receiving unit that receives, from a printer, support language information supported by the printer; a judging unit that judges, by referring to the support language information received by the first receiving unit, whether a particular kind of language which is supported by the print control apparatus is supported by the printer; a transmitting unit that transmits, to the printer, a specification information acquisition command for acquiring specification information relating to a specification supported by the printer if the judging unit judges that the particular kind of language is supported by the printer; a second receiving unit that receives the specification information which is transmitted from the printer in response to the specification information acquisition command; and a controller that performs processing according to the specification information received by the second receiving unit, wherein: the specification information includes a plurality of print parameters; the controller displays, on a display, on the basis of the specification information, a print parameter selection window for allowing a user to select a desired print parameter from the plurality of print parameters, and performs processing using the print parameter selected through the print parameter selection window; the specification information includes a plurality of first print parameters relating to a first print condition and a plurality of second print parameters relating to a second print condition; and if a first parameter is selected through the print parameter selection window, the controller displays one or more second print parameters corresponding to the first print parameter on the display in a selectable manner on the basis of the specification information.