An object of this invention is to reduce the burden of setting work when setting the correspondence between printing media and paper feed stages in a printing apparatus which selects a predetermined printing medium and prints image data. To achieve this object, according to this invention, an information processing method in a printing apparatus capable of selecting a desired printing medium as a printing condition in selecting a printing medium set on the paper feed stage and printing includes the display step of displaying a medium setting template, the step of selecting an arbitrary template name from the template names of the displayed medium setting template, and the step of setting the correspondence between the set medium contents and the paper feed tray in correspondence with the selected template name. A printing process is performed on the set medium for each paper feed tray.