Patent ID: 8139271

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a determination unit configured to determine whether a display apparatus is connected to the printing apparatus; a reception unit configured to receive image data from an external apparatus different from the display apparatus, wherein the reception unit receives the image data even if the determination unit determines that the display apparatus is not connected; a memory unit configured to store a print condition to be set for the printing apparatus for printing of the image data received by the reception unit; a mode setting unit configured to set a first mode in which the printing apparatus prints an image in accordance with the print condition stored in the memory unit, and then, if the determination unit determines that the display apparatus is connected, to cause the display apparatus to display a mode-setting screen and to set, in accordance with an instruction by a user using the mode-setting screen, the first mode or a second mode in which the printing apparatus prints an image in accordance with a print condition set by the user, the print condition set by the user not being the print condition stored in the memory unit; a display control unit configured to cause the display apparatus to display the print condition stored in the memory unit when the determination unit determines that the display apparatus is connected and the mode setting unit sets the first mode, and to cause the display apparatus to display a print setting screen for setting the print condition in the second mode when the mode setting unit sets the second mode; and a print unit configured, if the printing apparatus is operating in the first mode, to print an image on a recording medium based on the image data received by the reception unit in accordance with the print condition stored in the memory unit, and, if the printing apparatus is operating in the second mode, to print the image in accordance with the print condition set using the print setting screen displayed by the display apparatus.