Information processing method, information processing apparatus, and storage medium

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including program instructions, which when executed by a computer of a first information processing apparatus, cause the first information processing apparatus to perform the following:

• obtaining setting information on communications of a printer;
• obtaining information on a status of the printer from the printer by communicating with the printer, the obtaining the information on the status of the printer being started based on an input of a command from a user;
• and
• executing predetermined processing while waiting to communicate with the printer, in a case where the setting information indicates that the printer is ready to communicate with a second information processing apparatus via the first information processing apparatus and that the second information processing apparatus generates a printer description language (PDL) based on print data,
• wherein the obtaining of the information on the status of the printer and the executing of the predetermined processing are executed by respective different programs on the first information processing apparatus.

An information processing apparatus which is interposed between a printer and a different information processing apparatus which is connected to the information processing apparatus via a network and which is capable of controlling communications between the printer and the different information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising:

• a setting information obtaining unit that obtains setting information on communications of the printer;
• a status information obtaining unit that obtains information on a status of the printer from the printer by communicating with the printer based on an input of a command from a user;
• and
• an execution unit that causes the status information obtaining unit to wait to communicate with the printer and executes predetermined processing in a case where the setting information indicates that the printer is ready to communicate with the different information processing apparatus via the information processing apparatus and that the different information processing apparatus generates a printer description language (PDL) based on print data,
• wherein the obtaining of the information on the status of the printer by the status information obtaining unit and the executing of the predetermined processing by the execution unit are executed by respective different programs on the information processing apparatus.