Patent ID: 7365865

Claim:
A printer having a full-color print process and a monochrome print process, comprising: color/monochrome discrimination means for discriminating whether an attribute of a target page to be printed is color or monochrome; first determination means for determining presence of an immediately preceding page which is successively printed before the target page determined to be monochrome by said color/monochrome discrimination means; second determination means for determining presence of a succeeding page which is successively printed after the target page determined to be monochrome by said color/monochrome discrimination means, and an attribute of the succeeding page; and print process decision means for setting number of pages in accordance with whether or not said first determination means has determined that the immediately preceding page is present, and deciding a print process for the target page on the basis of presence and attributes of subsequent pages corresponding to the number of pages that are determined by said second determination means.