Abstract: This invention relates to a print control apparatus having a function of acquiring detailed data about print processing. A printer driver (101c) generates print data such as a PDL interpretable by a printer on the basis of command data transferred from a GDI (101b). The number of sheets is counted for the generated data in accordance with not only the number of sheets to be printed but also many settings such as the number of pages laid out on one sheet, paper size, color information, and double-side printing.

Abstract: In submitting a request to provide pay services over a network, such as printing a print job, a user designates a basic setting for the print job and enters an upper limit of a charge to be subjected to accounting (i.e, an upper limit of an amount he will pay for the requested services). An accounting server utilizes the setting information to determine which services can be provided within the upper limit and submits the determined services to the user for the user to select. The accounting server may also determine additional services that can be provided, either within the upper limit or above the upper limit, and submits them to the user as well. The user selects one of the basic setting or the additional services determined by the accounting server, whereby the print job is submitted to a service provider and the service is executed.