Patent ID: 7456980

Claim:
A printing system configured to cause a printer to produce N sets of prints for a job, the N being equal to or greater than 2, the system comprising: a first controller that causes said printer to perform a first trial-printing or a second trial-printing, all pages of print data of the job being printed by performing the first trial-printing for producing one set of prints, and print data of the job being used by performing the second trial-printing but the all pages being not printed; a second controller that causes said printer to produce N−1 sets of prints for the job in response to a predetermined request from a user interface after performing the first trial-printing, without user's intervention of increasing or decreasing the number of sets of prints, in a case where the first trial-printing is performed; and a third controller that causes said printer to produce the N sets of prints for the job in response to the predetermined request from the user interface after performing the second trial-printing, without user's intervention of increasing or decreasing the number of sets of prints, in a case where the second trial-printing is performed, wherein said predetermined request is for causing said printer to continue processing for the job.