Patent ID: 8831447

Claim:
A print control apparatus that controls a printing unit that is able to print images on first and second sets of first and second pages, the print control apparatus comprising: a determination unit configured to determine print quality of a print image printed by the printing unit; a first counting unit configured to count the number of pages whose print quality is determined by the determination unit not to satisfy a predetermined criterion, among at least the first and send gages of the first or second sets; a second counting unit configured to count the number of pages whose print quality is determined by the determination unit not to satisfy a predetermined criterion, for each of the first gage of the first and second sets and the second page of the first and second sets; and a control unit configured to stop printing by the printing unit in a case where a count value counted by the first counting unit reaches a first predetermined value and to stop printing by the printing unit in a case where a count value counted by the second counting unit reaches a second predetermined value.