Patent ID: 8274672

Claim:
A printing system comprising: a first printing apparatus; a second printing apparatus; and an information processing apparatus capable of being connected to said first printing apparatus and said second printing apparatus, said information processing apparatus including a control portion configured to execute a duplex printing process to enable printing on a first surface and a second surface of a recording medium in response to a request for duplex printing of print object data, wherein: said control portion executes a first printing process according to a first printer driver, during said duplex printing process, to generate, based on said print object data, first printing data to be used by said first printing apparatus for printing on said first surface and print information to be used for printing on said second surface; said control portion executes a second printing process according to a second printer driver, during said duplex printing process, to generate, based on said print information, second printing data to be used by said second printing apparatus for printing on said second surface; in a case that said print object data includes image data to be printed on a plurality of recording media, said control portion executes a process according to one of said first printer driver and said second printer driver, during said duplex printing process, to determine, based on an order of a plurality of pages printed on first surfaces of the plurality of stacked recording media ejected from said first printing apparatus, a printing order of a plurality of pages to be printed on second surfaces of the plurality of recording media by said second printing apparatus; and said second printing data is generated based on said determined printing order during said second printing process.