Patent ID: 8605326

Claim:
A print control apparatus comprising: a plurality of drawing processing units capable of performing drawing processing on print data having a plurality of print basic colors; a determining unit that determines whether the processing amount for rasterization processing for some page in the print data is equal to or greater than a threshold value; and a selection unit that selects the drawing processing on the print data by the drawing processing units in parallel by page or the drawing processing on the print data by the drawing processing units in parallel by each of the plurality of print basic colors, wherein when the processing amount is equal to or greater than the threshold value, the selection units selects the drawing processing on the print data by the drawing processing units in parallel by each of the plurality of print basic colors, when the processing amount is less than the threshold value, the selection units select s the drawing processing on the print data by the drawing processing units in parallel by page, and the rasterization processing is the processing which maps the print data in a PDL format into bitmap data.