Patent ID: 8848226

Claim:
A printing apparatus for processing a print job received from an external terminal, accumulating the print job sent from the external terminal in a storage portion, comprising: a timer for measuring elapse of a predetermined time from reception of a user-identified print job for each user identified according to user identification information included in the print job; and a control portion for managing a print job queue, wherein the control portion registers a new print job, except for the user-identified print job from the user measured by the timer, after a rearmost print job which is rearmost in the print job queue and registers the user-identified print job from the user measured by the timer after the rearmost print job which is the rearmost print job in the print queue form the corresponding user; and a printing portion for processing the print jobs in the print job queue, wherein, if the timer elapses for a leading print job in the print queue, the printing portion skips the leading print job and processes a next leading print job in the print queue for which the timer does not measure, if any.