Patent ID: 7839518

Claim:
A print control method carried out in a host computer connected to a plurality of printing apparatuses having a printing function via a network for bi-directionally communicating with the plurality of printing apparatuses, comprising: an output step that outputs a plurality of distribution print jobs generated from an intermediate file to respective ones of the plurality of printing apparatuses; a release step that releases the intermediate file when a termination notice is received from each of the plurality of printing apparatuses, the termination notice indicating that the printing apparatus has terminated printing of a distribution print job outputted to the printing apparatus; a management step that manages one or more of the plurality of distribution print jobs for which the termination notice has not been received; a search step that searches the intermediate file corresponding to the one or more of the plurality of distribution print jobs managed in said management step as a distribution print job for which the termination notice has not been received, in the case where said host computer is restarted after the plurality of distribution print jobs are outputted and before the termination notices are received from the plurality of printing apparatuses; a recovery step that recovers the plurality of distribution print jobs from the intermediate file searched in said search step; a display control step that controls a display unit to display a list of the one or more distribution print jobs managed in said management step as a distribution print job for which the termination notice has not been received such that the one or more distribution print jobs displayed in the list are identifiable from each other and can be individually instructed to reprint, wherein the one or more distribution print jobs in the list include a distribution print job for which printing has not been terminated and a distribution print job for which printing has been terminated but the termination notice has not been received because of the restart of said host computer, and do not include a distribution print job for which the termination notice has been received; an input step that inputs an instruction to selectively execute the plurality of distributed print jobs recovered in said recovery step; and a reprint step that regenerates a distribution print job corresponding to one designated from among the one or more distribution print jobs displayed in the list and executes a reprint process based on the intermediate file.