Patent ID: 8605320

Claim:
A printing apparatus which is connected to an external apparatus and which performs printing of an image on a recording medium, the printing apparatus comprising: a receiving section which receives a print data from the external apparatus; a storage section in which the print data received by the receiving section is stored; an input section which receives a print instruction from a user for printing based on the print data stored in the storage section; a print section which performs the printing of the image on the recording medium based on the print data stored in the storage section in a case that the input section receives the print instruction from the user; and a controller which controls the storage section and which calculates and sets for the print data stored in the storage section a storage time-period within which the print data is storable in the storage section; wherein: under the condition that the receiving section receives the print data, the controller calculates a free capacity of the storage section; in a case that the free capacity of the storage section is less than a predetermined reference value, the controller calculates and sets the storage time-period for first print data which is stored in the storage section and for which the storage time-period has not been set; and in a case that the storage time-period set for the first print data has elapsed, the controller controls the storage section to delete the first print data stored in the storage section from the storage section.