Patent ID: 8531684

Claim:
A printer having a full color print process and a monochrome print process, comprising: a color/monochrome discrimination unit configured to, when processing print data of a plurality of pages including a page having a color attribute and a page having a monochrome attribute, discriminate whether an attribute of a target page to be printed is color or monochrome; a determination unit configured to determine presence of an immediately preceding page which is successively printed before the target page when determined to be monochrome by the color/monochrome discrimination unit, and to determine a print process of the immediately preceding page; and a print process decision unit configured to decide either the full-color print process or the monochrome print process as a print process for the target page on the basis of presence and attributes of subsequent pages, when the determination unit determines that, with regard to the target page, the immediately preceding page is present and a print process applied to the immediately preceding page is the full-color print process.