Patent ID: 8643869

Claim:
An apparatus for submitting a print job to a specific printing device, said apparatus comprising: a cost calculator configured to calculate for each one of a plurality of print jobs: a first cost of printing color image print data corresponding to the respective print job, and which is stored in a storage unit, as a color image; and a second cost of printing the stored print data corresponding to the respective print job as a black-and-white image; and a print user interface configured to display simultaneously, for each particular print job amongst the plurality of print jobs, (i) the first cost calculated by the cost calculator for printing the particular print job as a color image and (ii) the second cost calculated by the cost calculator for printing the particular print job as a black-and-white image, for selection by a user, and indicate a total cost of printing a specified subset of the plurality of print jobs, calculated based on a combination of one or more separate user selections of one of the first cost, for color print, and the second cost, for black-and-white print, made particularly for each specific print job in the specified subset of the plurality of print jobs, and process the print data for each print job in the specified subset, for printing by said printing device, as one of the color image and the black-and-white image, corresponding to the combination of one or more user selections of one of the first cost and the second cost for each print job in the specified subset.