Patent ID: 7426046

Claim:
An information processing apparatus communicating with an input device and a display, the information processing apparatus comprising: a first acquisition unit that acquires attribute information of a print job corresponding to a print job presentation element selected by a selection indication via the input device; a second acquisition unit that acquires attribute information of a logical printer or a physical printer corresponding to a printer presentation element; a determination unit that determines which each of the logical printers or the physical printers to which the printer presentation element displayed on the screen corresponds has a function for outputting the print job corresponding to the selected print job presentation element, based on the attribute information of the print job acquired by the first acquisition unit and the attribute information of the logical printer or the physical printer acquired by the second acquisition unit; a display controller that displays on a screen of the display the print job presentation element and the printer presentation element, the print job presentation element symbolically presenting a print job and the printer presentation element symbolically presenting a print queue corresponding to a logical printer or a physical printer, wherein when the print job presentation element is selected, the display controller modifies a display status of the printer presentation element of the logical printer or the physical printer which has no function for outputting the print job corresponding to the selected print job presentation element, and the printer presentation element of the logical printer or the physical printer which partially has function for outputting the print job, so as to be distinguished from the printer presentation element of the logical printer or the physical printer which has the full function for outputting the print job, based on the determination; and a transfer unit that transfers, in accordance with a drop operation of the selected print job presentation element on the printer presentation element of the printer which has the full function or partially has function for outputting the print job corresponding to the selected print job presentation element, the selected print job to a queue of the printer corresponding to the printer presentation element on which the drop operation is detected.