Patent ID: 7859709

Claim:
A print data generation apparatus, comprising: an acceptance unit adapted to accepting a setting as to whether or not to perform a position control of a trimming mark for a document data to be printed; a determination unit adapted to determining a type of imposition setting of the document data to be printed; a decision unit adapted to deciding a position of the trimming mark for a sheet of printing paper upon which is placed the document data to be printed, in accordance with a determination result from the determination unit, when accepting the setting to perform the position control; a first generation unit adapted to generating a drawing data that represents the trimming mark in order to generate a print data according to the position of the trimming mark that is decided by the decision unit; and a second generation unit adapted to generating the print data from the document data and the drawing data, wherein the first generation unit generates the drawing data that represents the trimming mark such that the trimming mark is added to a front sheet of printing paper of a batch of sheets of printing paper and the trimming mark isn't added to other sheets of the printing paper.