Patent ID: 8705058

Claim:
A print/copy control system including a processing unit and a printing unit, the processing unit comprising: a first unit to receive a set of print/copy conditions selected by a user; a second unit to receive a standard set of print/copy conditions of an image forming device designated by a user's selection; a third unit to receive other selectable sets of print/copy conditions of the image forming device; a display unit to display a listing of each of the standard set of print/copy conditions of the image forming device, the set of print/copy conditions selected by the user, and the other selectable sets of print/copy conditions of the image forming device for comparison, a print processing unit to receive one of the sets of the print/copy conditions which has been selected among the listing displayed in the display unit, and a unit to generate advice information of a printing/copying process with respect to each of the respective sets of print/copy conditions displayed by the display unit, wherein the display unit displays the listing which further includes a listing of the advice information for comparison, wherein the printing unit performs the printing based on a selected one of the sets of the print/copy conditions, and wherein the listing of the each of the standard set of print/copy conditions, the set of print/copy conditions selected by the user, and the other selectable sets of print/copy conditions displayed in the display unit includes conditions of full color, duplex and collective modes.