Patent ID: 8836979

Claim:
A non-transitory printing management program which causes a computer to function as a printing job accepting unit which accepts a printing job from a pre-process within a printing process; a printing setting change accepting unit which accepts, from a user, a change of a printing setting which is set for the accepted printing job; a determining unit which determines pagination setting associated with the printing job by, determining a position where page numbers are located on images of pages associated with the printing job, determining the page numbers on the pages by analyzing the images at the determined position, and determining the pagination setting associated with the printing job based on an order of the page numbers; a warning unit which provides a warning on the change of the printing setting depending on the pagination setting, the warning requesting the user to confirm whether the change of the print settings is intentional; and a printing execution unit configured to process the printing job by, passing the printing job to an image forming apparatus using the changed printing settings, if the user confirms that the change in print settings is intentional, and passing the printing job to the image forming apparatus using print settings associated with the pagination settings, if the user indicates that the change in print settings was unintentional.