Patent ID: 8643885

Claim:
A printing control apparatus comprising: an acquiring unit that acquires information concerning a name of a printer driver to be used to control an operation of a printer, in accordance with a received print instruction; a storage unit that stores a table in which the name of the printer driver and definition information in which a setting location of authentication information in a DEVMODE structure is defined are associated with each other, the DEVMODE structure being a group of pieces of information to be referred to by the printer driver to generate print data; a specifying unit that specifies the setting location of the authentication information in the DEVMODE structure, in accordance with the information concerning the name of the printer driver acquired by the acquiring unit and the table stored in the storage unit; a setting unit that sets the authentication information in the setting location in the DEVMODE structure specified by the specifying unit; and a transmitting unit that generates print data having the authentication information in accordance with setting content of the DEVMODE structure in which the authentication information has been set by the setting unit, and that transmits the print data to the printer at an output destination.