Patent ID: 8433215

Claim:
A printing control apparatus that causes printing by a printing unit having a fixing unit that fixes a recording agent on a sheet, the printing control apparatus comprising: a printing control unit configured to cause the printing unit to stop printing of a current printing job, and print another job in a state that printing of the current printing job has been stopped; and a determining unit configured to determine whether or not to permit execution of the other job in a state that the printing of the current printing job has been stopped by the printing control unit, based on a first fixing unit temperature set in accordance with a type of processing specified in the current printing job and a second fixing unit temperature set in accordance with a type of processing specified in the other job; wherein the printing control unit performs control such that the other job is executed in a state that the current printing job has been stopped when the determining unit determines to permit execution of the other job in a state that the current printing job has been stopped, and wherein the other job is not executed in a state that the current printing job has been stopped when the determining unit determines not to permit execution of the other job in a state that the current printing job has been stopped.