Patent Document ID: 10019661
Application ID: 15177200

Base Claim:
1. A print control apparatus comprising: a print controller including one or more processors and at least one memory, the print controller functioning as: a receiving unit configured to receive, from an external device, a print job that includes a plurality of ordered document files, and a print page range indicating sequential target pages, an initial page in the sequential target pages corresponding to a print start page in one of the plurality of ordered document files, and a last page in the sequential target pages corresponding to a print end page in another one of the plurality of ordered document files; and a rasterizing unit configured to selectively rasterize pages of the received print job based on the print page range, so that the sequential target pages, including at least (i) pages between the print start page and a last page of the one document file and (ii) pages between a first page and the print end page of the other one document file, are rasterized, and the pages other than the sequential target pages are not rasterized, wherein the sequential target pages are printed and the pages of the print job other than the sequential target pages are not printed.

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Claim 5:
5. The print control apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the print controller further functions as: a generating unit configured to generate, for each of the plurality of ordered document files, a second print page range for the document file based on (i) the print page range, and (ii) a total number of pages of all document files that precede the document file in the plurality of ordered document files, and wherein the rasterizing unit specifies, for each document file of the plurality of ordered document files, pages of the document file according to the generated second print page range for the document file and rasterizes the specified pages of the document file.