PRINTING DEVICE, PRINTING SYSTEM, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To output print data in printing conditions in which a consumption is not reduced as initially desired by a user in response to print requests after each coloring agent is supplemented and the consumption is recovered during execution of printing even if a print request is received once in printing conditions in which the consumption of the coloring agent is reduced.SOLUTION: A printing device successively accumulates print jobs transmitted from a client terminal and each including a plurality of print data equal in an output content but different in a used amount of each coloring agent in a storage unit; sequentially reads the accumulated print jobs to execute printing; reads a residual amount of the coloring agent in a cartridge whenever the printing is executed so as to confirm whether the residual amount of the coloring agent in the cartridge to date is enough for print data that requires a large used amount of the coloring agent, and selects the print data having a large used amount of the coloring agent included in each print job so as to output the print data without reducing the used amount of the coloring agent from the print job for executing the printing if it is confirmed that the residual amount to date is enough.