Print control device, print control method, and recording medium having print control program recorded thereon

Abstract

This application discloses a print control device suppressing paper waste without reducing the size of a print sheet that is to form a section upon printing for bookbinding. In one configuration example of the print control device, the numbers Npand Npof first and second print sheets to be used, which correspond to two pieces of imposition information Dflyand Dflyprepared for manuscript data Dd for a single print job, are determined so as not to waste paper, on the basis of the numbers of pages imposed on the first and second print sheets and a total page number Npg in the manuscript data Dd. On the basis of the determined numbers Npand Npand the two pieces of imposition information Dflyand Dfly, overall imposition for the manuscript data Dd is determined such that, of the first and second print sheets, the shorter print sheets are sandwiched between the longer print sheets.