Patent ID: 7773244

Claim:
A print apparatus which prints an image on a printing medium, comprising: a communication unit that directly communicates with a digital camera; a storage unit that preserves image data; a reception unit that receives, from the digital camera via said communication unit, a job including information indicating a type of process regarding image data; a first determination unit that determines whether the job received by said reception unit includes either a request for preserving an image or a request for printing an image as the type of process; a second determination unit that determines whether image data corresponding to an image specified by the job received by said reception unit had already been preserved in said storage unit; a preservation processing unit that, if said first determination unit determines that the job received by said reception unit is the request for preserving an image and said second determination unit determines that the image data corresponding to the image specified by the job received by said reception unit had not yet been preserved in said storage unit, sends to the digital camera a request for sending the image data corresponding to the image specified by the job and preserves image data sent from the digital camera in said storage unit; and a print processing unit that, if said first determination unit determines that the job received by said reception unit is the request for printing an image and said second determination unit determines that the image data corresponding to the image specified by the job received by said reception unit had been preserved in said storage unit, reads out from said storage unit the image data corresponding to the image specified by the job without sending to the digital camera a request for sending the image data corresponding to the image specified by the job and executes a print process of the read out image data, while, if said first determination unit determines that the job received by said reception unit is the request for printing an image and said second determination unit determines that the image data corresponding to the image specified by the job received by said reception unit had not yet been preserved in said storage unit, said print processing unit sends to the digital camera the request for sending the image data corresponding to the image specified by the job and executes the print process of the image data sent from the digital camera in response to sending the request.