Patent ID: 8520238

Claim:
A printing apparatus for printing based on first print data received by the print apparatus and second print data received by the printing apparatus after the first print data is received, the printing apparatus comprising: a printed range store unit that includes a tangible, non-volatile memory and is configured to store a printed range, which is a part of the first print data that is completely printed; a print completion determination unit configured to determine whether or not the printing of the first print data has been completed; a print job determination unit configured to determine, when the second print data is received by the printing apparatus, whether or not the second print data corresponds with the first print data; an unprinted page determination unit configured to determine unprinted pages of the second print data based on the print range stored by the printed range store unit, when the print job determination unit determines that the second print data correspond with the first print data; and a print control unit configured to instruct a print unit to print based on the second print data and the result of the unprinted page determination unit, wherein the apparatus prints no pages of the second print data when it is determined that the second print data corresponds to the first print data and the printing of the first print data has been completed.