Patent ID: 8879097

Claim:
A printing device for printing a document, to be passed to one or more recipients being different from a user who has given a command to perform printing, in an output format for each of the recipients, the printing device comprising: a receiving portion configured to accept a print job indicating the document and the recipients; a first determination portion configured to determine, for each of the recipients, whether or not a history of print jobs that were executed based on a command by said each of the recipients is present; a second determination portion configured to determine an output format for each of the recipients indicated in the accepted print job; and a print job execution portion configured to, when printing the document indicated in the accepted print job by a plurality of sets corresponding to a number of the recipients, perform the printing in the output format for each of the recipients determined by the second determination portion; wherein: as for the recipient for which the first determination portion determines that a history of print jobs is present, the second determination portion determines the output format for each of the recipients based on the history of print jobs; and as for the recipient for which the first determination portion determines that a history of print jobs is not present, the second determination portion determines that an output format designated by the user who has given a command to execute the print job indicating the recipients to the printing device is the output format for each of the recipients.