Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer-readable storage medium

An information processing apparatus functioning as a server apparatus that controls a printing apparatus, comprising:

• a reception unit configured to receive, from a client apparatus, one of a print job used to cause the printing apparatus to execute printing and a setting job concerning a print setting set in one of the server apparatus and the printing apparatus;
• a printing control unit configured to cause the printing apparatus to execute printing in a case that said reception unit receives the print job;
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• a transmission unit configured to transmit one of a status of printing of the printing apparatus by said printing control unit and the print setting corresponding to the setting job to the client apparatus as the status of the printing apparatus in accordance with reception of one of the print job and the setting job by said reception unit.

An information processing method of an information processing apparatus connected, via a network, to a server apparatus that controls a printing apparatus, comprising:

• a job transmission step of, in a case of causing the printing apparatus to execute printing via the server apparatus, transmitting a print job to the server apparatus, and in a case of acquiring a print setting set in one of the server apparatus and the printing apparatus, transmitting a setting job concerning the print setting to the server apparatus;
• an acquisition step of acquiring one of a status of printing by the printing apparatus based on the print job and the print setting corresponding to the setting job from the server apparatus as the status of the printing apparatus in accordance with transmission of one of the print job and the setting job in the job transmission step;
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• a determination step of determining a print environment of the server apparatus based on the status acquired in the acquisition step.

An information processing method of controlling a printing apparatus, comprising:

• a reception step of receiving, from a client apparatus, one of a print job used to cause the printing apparatus to execute printing and a setting job concerning a print setting set in one of a server apparatus and the printing apparatus;
• a printing control step of causing the printing apparatus to execute printing in a case that the print job is received in the reception step;
• and
• a transmission step of transmitting one of a status of printing of the printing apparatus in the printing control step and the print setting corresponding to the setting job to the client apparatus as the status of the printing apparatus in accordance with reception of one of the print job and the setting job in the reception step.