Patent ID: 7969593
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus, comprising: an input unit constructed to input a print job; an apparatus status confirmation unit constructed to confirm that a resource necessary to print the print job input by the input unit is prepared in the printing apparatus; a registration unit constructed to register the print job in a wait job list when the resource necessary to print the print job is confirmed by the apparatus status confirmation unit, and register the print job as a saved job when the resource necessary to print the print job is not confirmed by the apparatus status confirmation unit; an execution unit constructed to execute print jobs registered in the wait job list; a setting unit constructed to set a restore condition for restoring the saved job into the wait job list, wherein the restore condition is selected from a plurality of restore conditions including a first restore condition which restores the saved job after a print job which is to be executed last in a plurality of print jobs registered in the wait job list, and a second restore condition which restores the saved job before a print job which is to be executed last in a plurality of print jobs registered in the wait job list, and wherein when the resource necessary to print the saved job is set in the printing apparatus, the registration unit registers the saved job, in the wait job list on the basis of the restore condition set by the setting unit, so as to execute the saved job by the execution unit according to the wait job list.