Patent ID: 6698949
Filing Date: 2004-03-02
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
A printing apparatus comprising:a memory for storing paged data; an input processing section for successively inputting one or more than one set of paged data included in a job, which is defined as a print unit, into the memory; a printing section for successively performing print processing of the paged data stored in the memory; and a control section for controlling an operation of each of the input processing section and the printing section, wherein the control section effects a first control, according to which, in case that print processing of a preceding job to a particular job has not ended yet when the control section is to start input processing of the particular job, the control section waits until the print processing of the preceding job ends and sets a print-inhibiting time for inhibiting parallel print processing to handle interruption processing in a period between an end of the print processing of the preceding job and a start of the input processing of the particular job, then waits until the print-inhibiting time ends and starts the input processing of the particular job, and then starts print processing of the particular job without waiting until the input processing of the particular job ends.