An information processing apparatus includes a communication part that communicates with a first image processing apparatus to execute a job set based on a first command set and a second image processing apparatus to execute a job set based on a second command set; a display controller displaying a setting screen; a setting command extracting part that extracts at least one setting command from setting commands; a command transmitting part that transmits the setting command to the first image processing apparatus or the second image processing apparatus; a setting command registering part that registers the setting command with command registration information; a command determining part determining whether or not the second command set includes a setting command associated with the setting command in the first command set; and a setting command reflecting part that reflects the setting command in the setting screen.

There are provided an information processing apparatus and a control method which realize job holding processing while reducing time taken to complete transmission of a job. The control method includes not notifying a spooler of deletion of the job from a job queue after the spooler specifies that transmission of all of pieces of data corresponding to the job is completed and in a case where processing of the job is not completed by a communication apparatus.

There is provided a control method for an information processing apparatus that stores an editing application with which editing of intermediate data including drawing data generated by a drawing application can be performed, the control method including: obtaining information associated with a print setting; deciding an interface used for obtaining the intermediate data from among a plurality of interfaces on a basis of the obtained information associated with the print setting; and obtaining the intermediate data by using the decided interface, in which the intermediate data output from the editing application is obtained by a printer driver and converted into a print command.

In an information processing apparatus according to this invention, a plurality of pieces of batch setting information each configured by a plurality of pieces of print setting information are registered in advance. A setting of print setting information, use of which is inhibited, of the plurality of pieces of print setting information is accepted. Batch setting information including the print setting information, use of which is inhibited, is specified from the plurality of pieces of batch setting information. Then, a setting screen which allows the user to select pieces of non-specified batch setting information, and does not allow the user to select the specified batch setting information is displayed.

A data transfer system includes a virtual printer driver to receive a report from a first system, the report in the form of a print job, and to generate an electronic document representative of the report; and an extraction module to extract a parameter from the electronic document, format the parameter in a first format, and provide the parameter in the first format to a second system.

Embodiments disclosed include systems and methods for computer automated print services control comprising authenticating a user credential input via a user device. The system and method includes generating, by a printer driver comprised in the user device, a user interface comprising features supported by a plurality of printing devices. Further, it includes receiving via the user device over the network, a print instruction comprising the features supported by the plurality of printing devices connected to the computer system over the network. And based on the print instruction, generating a print job in an embodiment. Further, based on the user authentication at one of the plurality of printing devices, converting via a gateway, the received print instruction into a format compatible with that printing device and releasing the generated print job for printing at that printing device, according to an embodiment.

Print operations are monitored and a DLP policy is applied, independently of the print interface technology used by applications that initiate print operations. A DLP component monitors for and detects print drivers being loaded into the print spooler. When a print driver is loaded, the print spooler creates a corresponding driver object, which is intercepted. The instantiated driver object creates multiple device objects to carry out various print functions. The device object print functions of interest are intercepted. Attempts to send text to the printer at a print driver level by intercepted device object functions are monitored, and application level context information is identified, such as the associated 0user. The DLP policy is applied to monitored attempts to send text to the printer at the print driver level, taking into account application level context information and the specific text of the monitored attempt.

Embodiments disclosed include systems and methods for computer automated print services control comprising authenticating a user credential input via a user device. The system and method includes generating, by a printer driver comprised in the user device, a user interface comprising features supported by a plurality of printing devices. Further, it includes receiving via the user device over the network, a print instruction comprising the features supported by the plurality of printing devices connected to the computer system over the network. And based on the print instruction, generating a print job in an embodiment. Further, based on the user authentication at one of the plurality of printing devices, converting via a gateway, the received print instruction into a format compatible with that printing device and releasing the generated print job for printing at that printing device, according to an embodiment.

There is provided an application that acquires data of an icon from an external apparatus. Some embodiments provide a non-transitory storage medium storing an application that provides a print setting screen for allowing a user to make a print setting used to generate a print command provided for printing in a printer by a driver in a computer, wherein the application, when executed by the computer, causes the computer to acquire data of an icon representing the printer from an external apparatus different from the computer via a network, and display the acquired icon on a display unit of the computer.

An information processing apparatus including a shared printer driver which is usable in common with respect to a plurality of different printing apparatuses includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire, in response to receiving an instruction to add a printing apparatus which is to be used with the shared printer driver, identification information for identifying a type of the printing apparatus, and a second acquisition unit configured to acquire, with use of the identification information acquired by the first acquisition unit, information indicating a characteristic of a printing apparatus corresponding to the identification information from a server different from the printing apparatus, wherein a user interface (UI) for use in performing print setting is displayed based on the information indicating the characteristic acquired by the second acquisition unit.