PRINTING APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR

摘要

A printing apparatus according to the present invention stores in a predetermined storage area, identification information of a print job including a print setting as a monitoring target in accordance with an extension program, for a job registration event issued according to a basic program when the print job is received. Then, for the job registration event issued according to the basic program, a job log including the identification information that has been stored in accordance with the extension program, in a dedicated file different from a normal file.

主权项

1. A printing apparatus in which a basic program for controlling execution of a print job operates, the printing apparatus comprising:
a first determination unit configured to determine, for a job registration event issued according to the basic program when a print job is received, whether the print job includes designation of a print setting as a monitoring target; a storage unit configured not to store identification information of the print job when the print job does not include the designation of the print setting as the monitoring target, and to store the identification information of the print job in a predetermined storage area when the first determination unit determines that the print job includes the designation of the print setting as the monitoring target; a second determination unit configured to determine, for a job registration event issued according to the basic program when a job log corresponding to the print job is recorded, whether identification information in the job log has been stored in the predetermined storage area; and a job log management unit configured to record the job log in a first file when the second determination unit determines that the identification information included in the job lob is stored in the predetermined storage area; wherein the job log management unit is configured to record the job log in a second file different from the first file when the second determination unit determines that the identification information included in the job lob is not stored in the predetermined storage area.