An information processing apparatus comprising: a specifying unit that specifies and authenticates an operator who inputs an output request for performing a print process; an output control unit that controls the print process in accordance with the output request; chracterised in that the apparatus further comprises: an event detecting unit that detects, after the operator has been specified and authenticated, an event having a possibility that the operator stops immediate output of the output request, wherein even in a case in which the operator has been specified and authenticated and the output control unit is instructed from the operator to perform an immediate print process of the output request when the operator is specified and authenticated, the output control unit stops the immediate print process of the output request in a case where the event detecting unit detects the event; and the event detecting unit detects, as the event, a state satisfying an immediate output stop condition defined by at least one of presence/absence of a person other than the operator in a vicinity of the information processing apparatus and an attribute of the output request as the event. a specifying unit that specifies and authenticates an operator who inputs an output request for performing a print process; an output control unit that controls the print process in accordance with the output request; chracterised in that the apparatus further comprises: an event detecting unit that detects, after the operator has been specified and authenticated, an event having a possibility that the operator stops immediate output of the output request, wherein even in a case in which the operator has been specified and authenticated and the output control unit is instructed from the operator to perform an immediate print process of the output request when the operator is specified and authenticated, the output control unit stops the immediate print process of the output request in a case where the event detecting unit detects the event; and the event detecting unit detects, as the event, a state satisfying an immediate output stop condition defined by at least one of presence/absence of a person other than the operator in a vicinity of the information processing apparatus and an attribute of the output request as the event. an event detecting unit that detects, after the operator has been specified and authenticated, an event having a possibility that the operator stops immediate output of the output request, wherein even in a case in which the operator has been specified and authenticated and the output control unit is instructed from the operator to perform an immediate print process of the output request when the operator is specified and authenticated, the output control unit stops the immediate print process of the output request in a case where the event detecting unit detects the event; and the event detecting unit detects, as the event, a state satisfying an immediate output stop condition defined by at least one of presence/absence of a person other than the operator in a vicinity of the information processing apparatus and an attribute of the output request as the event. <EOS>