Patent ID: 7508410

Claim:
An information processing apparatus, which is connected to a printing apparatus, and which has a printer driver issuing a print job causing the printing apparatus to execute 2-sided printing of at least body text and tab data on print sheets including a tab print sheet, said apparatus comprising: a print setup unit configured to receive a print setup using a user interface screen of the printer driver; a check unit configured to check whether or not the print setup includes a setup for 2-sided printing on the tab paper sheet; a print job generation unit configured to generate a print job file involving control commands for the printing apparatus according to the print setup; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the print job file generated by said print job generation unit to said printing apparatus, wherein the control commands involved in the print job file include: a paper source command which designates a paper source of the tab print sheet when said check unit determines that the print setup includes the setup for 2-sided printing on the tab paper sheet; a medium command which designates the tab print sheet as a print medium when said check unit determines that the print setup includes the setup for 2-sided printing on the tab paper sheet; a first face print command which instructs to execute a print process of a first face of the tab paper sheet when said check unit determines the print setup includes the setup for 2-sided printing on the tab paper sheet; a pause command that pauses a print process in the printing apparatus until an instruction is received via an operation panel of the printing apparatus after the first face print command is issued; and a second face print command which instructs to execute a print process of a second face of the tab paper sheet in accordance with the print setup.