| 摘要 |
A printing apparatus and so forth capable of performing prediction of a usage amount of a recording agent with respect to image data to be printed in a short amount of time is realized. A printing apparatus comprises a print head for performing printing using a recording agent, and a usage amount prediction section for predicting, before printing is performed at a predetermined resolution based on image data using said print head, a usage amount of the recording agent to be used for said printing, wherein, upon predicting the usage amount, the usage amount prediction section uses data based on the image data and having a resolution lower than said predetermined resolution.
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