Patent ID: 7342676

Claim:
A control method for an image printing apparatus having a hard disk drive and a nonvolatile memory, comprising: a reception step of receiving print job files from a host computer; a spooling step of temporarily spooling the received print job files in the hard disk drive of the image printing apparatus; a printing step of analyzing and printing the print job files spooled in the hard disk drive in the spooling step; a classification step of, in a case where occurrence of an abnormality in the image printing apparatus is detected during printing in the printing step, classifying the abnormality into a first abnormality caused by the print job files or a second abnormality not caused by the print job files, using a content of the abnormality; a storage step of storing a classified result classified in the classification step into the nonvolatile memory; and a print job file delete control step of in a case where print job files not printed in the printing step are spooled in the hard disk drive in a series of processes included in a bootstrap process of the image printing apparatus, and where the abnormality is classified into the first abnormality according to the classified result stored in the nonvolatile memory, deleting the print job files which are spooled and not printed, and in a case where print job files are spooled in the hard disk drive and where the abnormality is classified into the second abnormality according to the classified result stored in the nonvolatile memory, not deleting the print job files which are spooled.