A printing process management apparatus includes a first display controller that controls a display to display, in association with printing information, a first graphical object in which plural step-representing graphical objects corresponding to plural processing steps for the printing information are arrayed in a sequence identical to a sequence of the processing steps, a second display controller that acquires status information indicating a processing status of the printing information in each of the processing steps and controls the display to display a first step-representing graphical object corresponding to a first processing step whose status information indicates that processing is in progress while changing a format of the first step-representing graphical object to a format different from formats of other step-representing graphical objects, and a third display controller that controls the display to display information indicating details of the processing performed in the first processing step while juxtaposing the information with the first graphical object.