Patent ID: 8502995

Claim:
A printing method which uses filter setting information having at least one filter corresponding to a print option of a print document and an Extensible Markup Language Paper Specification (XPS) printer driver, the printing method comprising: selecting the print option; changing the filter setting information corresponding to the selected print option; applying the printing option according to the changed filter setting information and transmitting print data to be printed; determining whether an image forming apparatus to which the print data is to be transmitted is able to print the print data; and changing the print data to be printed by the image forming apparatus if the image forming apparatus is unable to print, wherein, when the image forming apparatus is unable to print, at least one of the filter setting information is stored in a storage unit before a filter description is changed to enable printing and the stored filter setting information is restored after printing, and an original name of the filter setting information is changed temporarily and is changed into the original name after completion of printing corresponding to the selected print option.