Patent ID: 7961345

Claim:
A print apparatus which has a printing unit for printing an image on a printing medium, comprising: a storage unit that stores image data; a communication unit that communicates with a digital camera; a reception unit that receives, from the digital camera via said communication unit, a job in which information indicating either an instruction of storing an image or an instruction of printing an image is described and image designation information designating the image to be stored or printed is described; a determination unit that, when said reception unit receives the job from the digital camera, determines whether or not image data of the image specified by the image designation information described in the received job has already been stored in said storage unit; a preservation processing unit that, if the received job includes an instruction of storing an image and said determination unit determines that the image data of the image designated by the image designation information described in the job has not been stored yet in said storage unit, sends to the digital camera a transfer request of the image data to be stored and stores in said storage unit the image data sent from the digital camera in response to sending the transfer request; and a print processing unit that, if the received job includes an instruction of printing an image and said determination unit determines that the image data to be printed has already been stored in said storage unit, reads out from said storage unit the image data designated by the image designation information described in the received job without sending to the digital camera the transfer request for sending the image data of the image designated by the image designation information described in the job and executes print processing of the read out image data by the printing unit, and, if the received job includes an instruction of printing an image and said determination unit determines that the image data to be printed has not been stored yet in said storage unit, said print processing unit sends to the digital camera the transfer request for sending the image data of the image designated by the image designation information described in the job and executes the print processing of the image data sent from the digital camera in response to sending the transfer request by the printing unit.