A printer managing apparatus includes a physical printer managing unit for managing the outputting of the attribute information of individual physical printers and controlling the outputting of a job to the physical printers, a logical printer attribute information generating unit for logically selecting the attribute information of the physical printer from the physical printer managing unit for managing attribute information of physical printers to generate attribute information of a logical printer, and a logical-printer attribute-information managing unit for managing the generated attribute information of the logical printers. With such an arrangement, the attribute information set in the logical printer is obtained from the attribute information of the individual physical printers that form the logical printer. Therefore, the attribute information of the logical printer may more properly be set than by a manager.