Patent ID: 8514424

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a reception unit configured to receive a job containing data divided into a plurality of records, each record containing data of a plurality of pages, wherein a printing error recovery setting has been preset, for each record, as recovery by record unit or not; a print control unit configured to control printing based on the job received by the reception unit and to determine if a printing error has occurred; a determination unit configured to determine if the printing error recovery setting for the record in which the printing error occurred is set to recovery by record unit; a printing error display unit configured to, in a case where a printing error occurs, display the printing error on an operation unit; a sheet discharge unit configured to discharge recording media, held on a buffer tray, when the print control unit determines a printing error has occurred while printing a record in which the printing error recovery setting has been set to recovery by record unit, the recording media including pages from the first page of the record to the page related to the page where the printing error occurred; a display unit configured to display a message on the operation unit prompting the removal of the recording media discharged by the sheet discharge unit; and a print resumption unit configured to resume printing from the first page of the record in which the printing error occurred if the print resumption unit is instructed to resume printing after the display unit displays the message.