Patent ID: 6906813

Claim:
A print control apparatus for receiving a print job including print data from an external apparatus and controlling an image forming section to form an image based on image data, said apparatus comprising: storing means for storing print data; generation means for generating image data by analyzing the print data; image formation control means for causing the image forming section to form the image based on the image data generated by said generation means; and interrupt control means for, in response to an interrupt instruction identifying a print job, interrupting processing of a print job not identified by the interrupt instruction and controlling said generation means to analyze print data of the print job identified in the interrupt instruction, wherein said storing means stores print data of the interrupted print job, including a print data portion that has already been analyzed by said generation means, until formation of an image based on the image data generated from the print data of the identified print job by the image forming section is completed, and wherein said generation means analyzes the print data of the interrupted print job, including the print data portion that has already been analyzed by said generation means, stored in said storing means after the analysis of the print data of the identified print job is completed.