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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2007
Tomoya Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiko Tominaga, Kawasaki, JP;
Masayuki Toda, Yokohama, JP;
Yasunori Kanai, Tokyo, JP;
Hideyuki Okada, Kawasaki, JP;
Tomoya Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Masahiko Tominaga, Kawasaki, JP;
Masayuki Toda, Yokohama, JP;
Yasunori Kanai, Tokyo, JP;
Hideyuki Okada, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, , JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus connected to an external apparatus for temporarily storing a print job including a plurality of pages of image data, receives image data related to the print job from the external apparatus and performs printing using the received image data, comprising a storage unit for temporarily storing the image data received from the external apparatus, a printing unit for performing printing using the image data stored in the storage unit, a determination unit for determining an amount of free area in the storage unit and a control unit for performing a control to switch storage of the image data in the storage unit from storing all of the pages of the image data to storing some of the pages of the image data, in response to the amount of free area determined becoming smaller than a predetermined area during printing.