Patent ID: 8331808

Claim:
A control apparatus comprising: a process control unit configured to control to execute a printing process for printing an image on a sheet fed from a sheet feed unit, and to control to execute a glossing process for feeding the sheet on which the image is printed in the printing process from a sheet feed unit and glossing the fed sheet; a resuming unit configured to resume, in a case where the printing process executed by said process control unit is interrupted by an interrupting factor, and then the interrupting factor is removed, the interrupted printing process without receiving a user instruction via an operation unit, and to prompt, in a case where the printing process includes printing on a plurality of copies of sheets and the glossing process executed by said process control unit is interrupted by an interrupting factor during execution of the glossing process on sheets of each of the plurality of copies of sheets in the glossing process and then the interrupting factor is removed, a user to select whether to resume the interrupted glossing process from a copy next to a copy of which the glossing process on the sheets is interrupted or from an intermediate part of the copy of which the glossing process on the sheets is interrupted, and resume the interrupted glossing process in accordance with the selection of the user, which is received via the operation unit.