JP2013071361A5 - - Google Patents

Claims (8)

An input means for inputting a print job having a plurality of pages;
A dividing unit that divides a print job input by the input unit into page data in units of pages and stores the divided data in a memory;
Print control means for executing printing of the page data divided by the dividing means according to a printing order;
During processing execution by the preceding job is the dividing means is input by said input means, when a high succeeding job priority than the preceding job has been input by the input means, the preceding job by waiting the succeeding job And a control means for continuing the processing by the dividing means. Determining means for determining the free capacity of the memory;
The print control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the control unit causes the succeeding job to wait when the determination unit determines that the free space of the memory is insufficient.   The control means interrupts the processing of the preceding job by the dividing means and executes the processing of the succeeding job when the determining means determines that the free space of the memory is sufficient. The printing control apparatus according to claim 2. A rendering unit that performs rendering processing of the page data divided by the dividing unit;
The control unit determines whether the page data necessary for the rendering process is prepared, and when determining that the page data is prepared, causes the rendering unit to start the rendering process,
The print control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the print control unit executes printing based on page data rendered by the rendering unit. The print control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the preceding job is a print job that requires a print job to be rearranged in page order. The print control apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a printing unit that executes printing of the page data divided by the dividing unit. Enter a print job with multiple pages,
The input print job is divided into page data for each page and stored in memory.
Printing the divided page data according to a printing order;
When a succeeding job having a higher priority than the preceding job is input during the process of dividing the page data for the preceding job, the succeeding job is waited to perform the dividing process into the page data for the preceding job. A printing control method characterized by continuing. The program which implement | achieves each means of the printing control apparatus of any one of Claims 1-6 , or the printing control method of Claim 7 with a computer.