Patent ID: 8582130

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information, from a received print job, about an attribute of the print job; a determination unit configured to determine which method is suitable as a printing method for the print job, a first printing method in which a print process is started before a raster image processing (RIP) process on all pages included in the print job is ended or a second printing method in which a print process is started after the RIP process on all pages included in the print job is ended, based on the attribute information acquired by the acquisition unit; and a decision unit configured to decide the printing method determined as suitable for the print job by the determination unit as the printing method executed on the print job, wherein the determination unit determines the first printing method as suitable for the print job if bookbinding print is not set in the print job and a type of page description language (PDL) included in the print job is not a type of PDL using process time longer than a predetermined process time at a time of the RIP process, and determines the second printing method as suitable for the print job if bookbinding print is set in the print job or the type of PDL included in the print job is a type of PDL using process time longer than a predetermined process time at the time of the RIP process.