Patent ID: 8681364

Claim:
A printing apparatus which performs printing based on input data, comprising: an input unit that inputs data including print setting information and image data; a printing unit that performs a printing process based on the data; a setting unit that sets processing conditions which the printing unit uses for the printing process based on the print setting information included in the data; and a judging unit that compares print setting information included in preceding data which is previously input by the input unit with print setting information included in subsequent data which is input following the preceding data, and judges whether or not both the pieces of the print setting information are the same as each other, (A) wherein, if it is judged by the judging unit that both the pieces of the print setting information are the same as each other, the printing unit performs a printing process based on the preceding data and the subsequent data according to processing conditions which are set by the setting unit based on the print setting information of the preceding data, and (B) wherein, if it is judged by the judging unit that both the pieces of the print setting information are different from each other, the printing unit performs a printing process based on the preceding data according to processing conditions which are set by the setting unit based on the print setting information of the preceding data, and the printing unit performs a printing process based on the subsequent data according to processing conditions which are set by the setting unit based on the print setting information of the subsequent data.