Patent ID: 8130405

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: an embedding unit that embeds first identification information for identifying pages to be printed with respect to image information representing images per page to be printed on each page of a recording medium; and a processing unit which, when performing predetermined processing relating to printing with respect to each image information set in which the first identification information has been embedded, determines whether or not the processing order is a predetermined page order on the basis of the first identification information that has been embedded in each image information set and, when the processing order is the predetermined page order, performs the predetermined processing in a state where the first identification information remains embedded with respect to the image information serving as the determination target wherein, attribute information representing the per page printing conditions is correlated with the image information, the embedding unit further embeds second identification information with respect to the attribute information that has been correlated with the image information in which the first identification information has been embedded, and the processing unit determines whether or not the first identification information that has been embedded in the image information and the second identification information that has been embedded in the attribute information that has been correlated with that image information match and performs the predetermined processing when they match.