Patent ID: 8556369

Claim:
A print control apparatus capable of causing a printing unit to perform printing on a continuous sheet, the apparatus comprising: a determination unit configured to determine a sheet size specified by a first print job, and a sheet size specified by a second print job; a first decision unit configured to decide on at least one sheet width usable by the first print job and at least one sheet width usable by the second print job based on respective sheet sizes determined by the determination unit; a second decision unit configured to decide on a sheet width of a continuous sheet to be used by the first print job and the second print job based on both the sheet width usable by the first print job and the sheet width usable by the second print job decided on by the first decision unit so that the first print job and the second print job can be printed on the same continuous sheet; a print control unit configured to perform control such that the printing unit prints an image based on the first print job and an image based on the second print job continuously on a same continuous sheet having a sheet width decided on by the second decision unit; and at least one processor configured to perform a functionality of at least one of the determination unit, the first decision unit, the second decision unit, and the print control unit, wherein the first decision unit adds a sheet width that is larger than a width of a sheet size determined by the determination unit as one of the usable sheet widths.