Patent ID: 8705095
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A print control apparatus comprising: a plurality of conversion units each of which is capable of activating a plurality of drawing processing units that generate print data by performing a drawing process on the basis of received print jobs; a memory that stores received print jobs in a print queue; a judging unit that judges whether or not the number of pages of a received print job is larger than a set threshold; an assigning unit that assigns a received print job to one or more of the plurality of conversion units which are not busy processing another previously-assigned print job; and a selecting unit that, in a case wherein among the plurality of received print jobs stored in the memory there is at least a first print job having a number of pages greater than the set threshold and a second print job having a number of pages less than or equal to the set threshold, the selecting unit preferentially selects the second print job over the first print job from among the plurality of received print jobs stored in the memory when at least one of the plurality of conversion units is busy processing another previously-assigned print job, wherein the assigning unit assigns the print job selected by the selecting unit to one of the plurality of conversion units which is not busy processing another previously-assigned job.