Efficiently controlling a print output destination in association with an information processing apparatus that has issued a print request

A data processing apparatus that receives job data and prints the job data, the apparatus comprising:

• an application execution unit that transmits the job data to the data processing apparatus;
• a print-request-source notification unit that is included in the application execution unit and invoked by the application execution unit to report print-request-source information for specifying a print request source;
• a virtual printer driver that is invoked upon receiving the job data from the application execution unit, extracts job information specifying print settings from the job data, generates a work space to perform image conversion, and generates drawing data of a higher image format from the job data in the work space;
• a transmission processing unit that is generated as a private instance for the job data, selects a printer driver corresponding to output-destination printer information associated with a client or a user of the client, instructs the selected printer driver to print the drawing data of the higher image format with the print settings specified by the job information, and transmits transmission destination information and/or print information determined for the job data;
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• a display unit that receives the transmission destination information and/or the print information from the transmission processing unit and displays the received transmission destination information and/or the print information on the print request source specified by the print-request-source information.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having recorded therein a program that causes a computer to serve as a data processing apparatus that receives job data from an application execution unit and prints the job data, the program causing the computer to serve as:

• an application execution unit that transmits the job data to the data processing apparatus;
• a print-request-source notification unit that is included in the application execution unit and invoked by the application execution unit to report print-request-source information for specifying a print request source;
• a virtual printer driver that is invoked upon receiving the job data from the application execution unit, extracts job information specifying print settings from the job data, generates a work space to perform image conversion, and generates drawing data of a higher image format from the job data in the work space;
• a transmission processing unit that is generated as a private instance for the job data, selects a printer driver corresponding to output-destination printer information associated with a client or a user of the client, instructs the selected printer driver to print the drawing data of the higher image format with the print settings specified by the job information, and transmits transmission destination information and/or print information determined for the job data;
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• a display unit that receives the transmission destination information and/or the print information from the transmission processing unit and displays the received transmission destination information and/or the print information on the print request source specified by the print-request-source information.