There is provided an image printing apparatus having color materials of a plurality of colors including black and performing color printing using the plurality of color materials. The image printing apparatus includes a data acquisition interface that acquires color printing data (PDL data, etc.), a residual amount detection unit that detects the residual amount of the plurality of color materials, a drawing unit that draws the color printing data acquired by the data acquisition interface as printing data that is printable with a color material of black when the residual amount detection unit has detected that the residual amount of at least one color material excluding black is a predetermined amount or less, and a recording unit that executes printing processing on the basis of the printing data drawn by the drawing unit.