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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2005
Hiroyuki Ataka, Nara, JP;
Hiroyuki Ataka, Nara, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes (a) a pass-over processing section for managing print processing order of the jobs, and for controlling the image forming section such that a shortage job is skipped and the print processing is carried out with respect to each of succeeding jobs coming after the shortage job in the print processing order, the shortage job being a job which is so judged by the device condition managing section as to cause a shortage of the source; and (b) a proximate job judgment section for judging whether or not the shortage job and a proximate job need to be consecutively print-processed, by comparing (i) job information included in the shortage job with (ii) job information of the proximate job. In cases where the proximate job judgment section judges that the shortage job and the proximate job need to be sequentially print-processed, the pass-over processing section controls the image forming section such that the shortage job, judged to be print-processed in continuity with the proximate job, is not skipped for print processing with respect to the succeeding jobs coming after the shortage job, until completion of the print processing of the shortage job.