Patent ID: 8134731

Claim:
A printing device for preparing print data from image data and sequentially printing the print data, the printing device comprising: a print instruction receiving unit which receives a print instruction with the selection of the image data; and a print data preparing unit which, when the print instruction is received by the print instruction receiving unit with the selection of a plurality of pieces of image data including JPEG data and RAW data before a development process, performs a process of preparing the print data from the JPEG data among the plurality of pieces of selected image data prior to a process for performing the development process with respect to the RAW data and preparing the print data if at least a predetermined amount of print data in a print standby state, in which printing is not completed by the printing device, is not present, and performs the process for performing the development process with respect to the RAW data and preparing the print data prior to the process of preparing the print data from the JPEG data if the at least predetermined amount of print data in the print standby state, in which printing is not completed by the printing device, is present.