Patent ID: 8472058

Claim:
An image processing device comprising: a receiving unit for receiving print data transmitted from an external device connected through a network; a detecting unit for detecting interruption of connection of the network while the receiving unit receives the print data; a setting determining unit for determining, before the detecting unit detects the interruption of the network, whether or not a print setting of the print data is a setting directed to start printing after all the print data are received, the image processing device being capable of receiving data failed to be received due to the interruption, among the print data supposed to be received, upon a reconnection of the network whose interruption has been detected, wherein, when the setting determining unit determines that the print setting of the print data is the setting directed to start printing after all the print data are received, print processing on the print data is started after all the print data are received; and a determining unit for making a determination for a case where the print setting of the print data incompletely transmitted from the external device before the interruption of the network is the setting directed to start printing after all the print data are received, where the interruption of the network connected to the external device has been detected, and where a print job from a different external device connected through a different network is transmitted, the determination being made as to whether or not there is a vacant paper discharge tray in addition to a paper discharge tray used for discharging the print data transmitted incompletely before the interruption of the network, wherein, when the determining unit determines that there is a vacant paper discharge tray, the print job from the different external device connected through the different network is discharged onto the vacant paper discharge tray.