Patent ID: 8786893

Claim:
A method for previewing printing, the method being suitable for a printing apparatus and comprising: receiving a printing job, the printing job comprising a printing data; determining whether the printing job comprises a preview printing command; when the printing job is determined to comprise the preview printing command: storing the printing data; establishing a work index value for indexing the printing data according to a user; and storing the work index value into a work index table, printing the printing data; after the printing job is printed, and when the printing job is determined to comprise the preview printing command, the method further comprising: identifying the user; selecting the work index value from the work index table according to the user; and retrieving the printing data based on the work index value; and when the printing job is determined to comprise the preview printing command: determining whether to continue executing the printing job; and when it is determined to continue executing the printing job, continuing to print the printing data.