Patent ID: 8305628
Filing Date: 2012-11-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus that prints merged data in which print data and form data have been merged, the apparatus comprising: an analysis unit configured to analyze whether or not each page in the form data has been given a designation of blank page printing; a processing unit configured to carry out a process, based on a result of analysis by the analysis unit, of invalidating the designation of blank page printing of a page that has been given the designation of blank page printing in the form data; a merging unit configured to merge the form data processed by the processing unit and the print data, and a print unit configured to perform printing of the merged data that has been merged by the merging unit, wherein, in a case where a setting for printing the form data only has been set, the process of invalidating the designation of blank page printing by the processing unit is not carried out.