Patent ID: 7298505

Claim:
A printing apparatus for carrying out the printing of print jobs transmitted from a host device in order of receipt, said apparatus comprising: a queue management unit that holds at least first and second print jobs to which passwords are attached and which are transmitted from said host device together with normal print jobs for which no password entry is required, the normal print jobs being held in a queue with a print hold status, and that manages the order of all print jobs, until said passwords are entered; wherein, upon entry of the passwords of at least said first password-attached print job and said second password-attached print job which are held in the queue with a print hold status, the print hold status of said first password-attached print job and said second password-attached print job is released prior to printing of the first password-attached print job and the second password-attached print job, and the printing of at least said first password-attached print job and said second password-attached print job is executed in order of entry of the passwords and prior to printing of the normal print jobs which r&icier no password entry.