Patent ID: 9158489
Filing Date: 2015-10-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing control apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive a print instruction to instruct printing on a recording medium; a transferring unit configured to transfer the print instruction received by the receiving unit to an outputting portion capable of storing a plurality of print instructions, and to output the stored print instructions one by one to a printing device; and a controller configured to control the transferring unit so that another print instruction is transferred to the outputting portion, in response to a previous print instruction transferred by the transferring unit starting to be outputted from the outputting portion to the printing device, wherein in the outputting portion, among the print instructions transferred by the transferring unit to the outputting portion, a sum of the print instructions being transferred to the outputting portion and the print instructions waiting to be outputted to the printing device is prevented from ever becoming two or more.