Patent ID: 8687009

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: an input unit adapted to input job data; a writing unit adapted to write the job data to a memory device; a processing unit adapted to read the job data from the memory device and process the job data for print processing; a memory control unit adapted to manage the memory device by classifying the memory device into a plurality of storage areas including (i) a first storage area for storing a job data which has been written by the writing unit and has not been read out in order to execute a process by the processing unit, (ii) a second storage area which stores a job data which has been read and has been processed by the processing unit, and (iii) a third storage area which is a free storage area; and wherein in a case where the input unit inputs a job data and the second storage area exists, the writing unit writes the job data to the second storage area of the memory device in priority to the third storage area, and in a case where the input unit inputs a job data and the second storage area does not exist, the writing unit writes the job data to the third storage area.