Patent ID: 8848212

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a rasterization unit that rasterizes data of a print job into raster image data; a storage unit that stores the raster image data of the print job; a print unit that prints an image on a sheet using the raster image data of the print job stored in the storage unit; a setting unit that sets a raster-image processing while-print mode in which the print unit starts printing using raster image data before the rasterization unit completes rasterization processing of data of the print job, or a raster-image processing after-print mode in which the print unit starts printing using raster image data after the rasterization unit has completed rasterization processing of the data of the print job; a control unit that controls the print unit, in a case where the print job is set to the raster-image processing after-print mode, to execute the printing of the print job by: switching the print mode of the print job to the raster-image processing while-print mode, in a case where a remaining capacity of the storage unit is smaller than a predetermined capacity, and maintaining the print mode of the print job in the raster-image processing after-print mode, in a case where the remaining capacity of the storage unit is larger than the predetermined capacity; and a determination unit that, in a case where two or more number of copies is designated as the number of copies of the print job: determines the number of copies to be one in a case where the control unit controls the print unit to execute the printing in the raster-image processing while-print mode, and determines the number of copies to be two or more copies in a case where the control unit controls the print unit to execute the printing in the raster-image processing after-print mode.