Patent ID: 7927030

Claim:
A printing control method for controlling a printing job which includes a plurality of groups, wherein each group is composed of at least one page, comprising: a displaying step of displaying a printing job including the plurality of groups on a screen in which each group is discriminable; a first setting step of setting an attribute representing whether to print on only one side or two sides of a paper sheet to the printing job; a second setting step of setting an attribute representing whether to print on only one side or the two sides of a paper sheet to a group selected on the screen from the plurality of groups, wherein the attribute different from the attribute set in the first setting step is settable in the second setting step; and an instruction step of, if the group to which the attribute is set in the second setting step exists, instructing a printer to print the page included in the group to which the attribute is set in the second setting step based on the attribute set in the second setting step.