Patent ID: 8379237

Claim:
A printing system comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive print data generated by a printer driver; a determination unit configured to determine whether a target job is a first type of print job in which printing the print data starts after completion of developing all of the print data into an image or a second type of print job in which printing the print data starts before completion of developing all of the print data into an image; and a printing unit configured to: start printing an image based on image data developed from the received print data if it is confirmed, based on the developed image data, that the quantity of the resource required to complete the printing exists in the printing system, in a case where the determination unit determines that the target job is the first type of print job; and start printing an image without confirming that the quantity of the resource required to complete the printing exists in the printing system in a case where the determination unit determines that the target job is the second type of print job.