Printing apparatus and printing control method and character font pattern control method in printing apparatus

A printing control method in a printing apparatus for printing information in accordance with print requests from a plurality of host devices, comprising the steps of:

• storing each print information in a memory upon reception of each print request;
• and
• controlling delivery of said each print information by a print queue, wherein the print queue is successively connected to a plurality of print queue connection points which include at least a wait for bit map memory acquirement point, a wait for extension point, a wait for print point, a wait for paper discharge point and a stop state point, so as to control a printing operation for each received print request, wherein upon receipt of a print stop request delivered by a specific host device, any queue corresponding to the print request from the specific host device is connected to the stop state point so as to stop the printing operation with respect to the specific host device, wherein printing operations of the plurality of host devices, other than the specific host device for which the printing operation has been stopped, are normally performed in accordance with print queues thereof, regardless of the state of the printing operation of the specific host device, and wherein when the specific host device resumes the printing operation, every print queue of the specific host device, which has been connected to the stop state point, is connected to the wait for bit map memory acquirement point.