Patent ID: 8848219

Claim:
A printing control apparatus comprising: a storage unit configured to store information about a plurality of print jobs and a plurality of printing devices in a storage device; a detection unit configured to detect a shift of an operative state of the plurality of printing devices; a determination unit configured to determine a print job which matches to a capability of the printing device of which the shift to a standby state is detected, from the plurality of print jobs based on the information about the plurality of print jobs and the printing device stored in the storage device when the shift of any of the printing devices to the standby state is detected by the detection unit; and a print control unit configured to cause the printing device to print the print job determined by the determination unit, wherein the determination unit is configured to determine a print job to be printed by each of the printing device of which the shift to a standby state is detected and another printing device required to be shifted later to the standby state according to another job from the plurality of print jobs, wherein the information about the plurality of printing devices includes information about power consumption of each of the plurality of printing devices and, wherein the determination unit is configured to determine, when the shift of any of the printing devices to the standby state is detected by the detection unit, the print job which the printing device of which the shift to the standby state is detected prints from the plurality of print jobs based on a comparison between information about the power consumption of the printing device of which the shift to the standby state is detected and information about the power consumption of another printing device required to be shifted later to the standby state according to another job.