Patent ID: 7333221

Claim:
A printer comprising: a receiving section which receives printing jobs including information on at least one of normal printing and special printing; a storage section which stores the received printing jobs; a printing section which executes the printing jobs extracted from the storage section; a display section which displays a list of the printing jobs that include information on the special printing; an input section which accepts a printing job selected by a user from the displayed list; and a control section which extracts from the storage section the printing job selected by the user, and causes the printing section to execute the selected printing job, wherein the control section prevents the printing section from printing any of the received printing jobs that include information on the special printing that are stored in the storage section, until the input section receives a selection made by the user for printing one or more of the received printing jobs that include information on the special printing, and wherein the one or more of the received printing jobs that include information on the special printing also include information on normal printing of at least one or more pages of the printing jobs.