Patent ID: 8446606

Claim:
A print control apparatus for registering a printer group corresponding to a printing feature and controlling a print process in which print data is transmitted to one member printer included in the printer group, said print control apparatus comprising: at least a processor and memory, cooperating to function as: a registration unit adapted to register member printers forming a printer group corresponding to a printing feature selected from a plurality of printing features in response to a user instruction, wherein the member printers are selected from a plurality of printers on a network; a displaying unit adapted to display, after a print instruction is performed by an application program, a list via a user interface for a print process, wherein said displaying unit lists the member printers registered by said registration unit and shows at least one of status information and location information of each of member printers on the list; a designation unit adapted to designate, as an output target printer to be used in a current print process, one of the member printers on the list, such that any of the member printers not designated by said designation unit is temporarily not used for the current print process; and a transmission unit adapted to transmit print data formed from data supplied by the application program to the one member printer designated by said designation unit, wherein said displaying unit displays the list via the user interface such that the designated member printer and the member printer not designated by said designation unit are listed for a next print process without re-registration by said registration unit.