Patent ID: 7499661

Claim:
An image printing apparatus for job based printing of an image on a printing medium, comprising: a plurality of trays on which printing media are placeable; a job storage section which sequentially stores a plurality of jobs; a tray selection section which selects a tray on which a printing medium subjected to image printing based on a forthcoming post-determined job is placeable; an occupation setting section which sets the tray selected by said tray selection section as occupied; a priority level setting section which sets execution priority levels of the jobs stored in said job storage section; and a control unit which determines whether the post-determined job is allowed to be stored in said job storage section, wherein when a tray set to be occupied for a predetermined job stored in said job storage section prior to the post-determined job is the same as that selected for the post-determined job, said control unit allows the post-determined job to be stored in said job storage section only if the execution priority level set for the post-determined job is lower than that set for the predetermined job.