Patent ID: 8537391

Claim:
An image forming apparatus to which an external apparatus equipped with a transmission unit for transmitting a print job is connected via a network, the image forming apparatus comprising: a reception unit configured to receive the print job from the external apparatus; a spooling unit configured to spool the received print job; a development unit configured to develop the spooled print job to a printable data; a detecting unit configured to detect network disruption in the network; a control unit configured to, in a case of detecting the network disruption in the middle of spooling and developing the received print job by the spooling unit and the development unit, stop the development of the print job for a stop state and set a subsequent print job which is not in the stop state as an object of the development; and a determining unit configured to determine whether or not the reception unit and the transmission unit of the external apparatus each use a wireless interface, wherein the spooling unit resumes the spooling of the print job when the network of the print job in the stop state is reconnected, and wherein the control unit releases the stop state of the print job when the spooling of the print job in the stop state is completed and releases the stop state of the print job even if the spooling of the print job in the stop state is not completed in a case where the determining unit determines that the reception unit and the transmission unit of the external apparatus each do not use the wireless interface.