A printing apparatus which is configured to communicate with an external device and performs printing includes: a receiving section which receives a printing job from the external device; a storage section in which the printing job is stored; an input section which accepts a printing instruction; a printing section which performs the printing based on the printing job when the input section accepts the printing instruction; a judgment section which judges whether or not the printing job is a deletion-objective job to be deleted from the storage section; a determining section which determines a transmission mode based on at least one of transmission setting and transmission content of the deletion-objective job, when the judgment section judges that the printing job is the deletion-objective job; a transmission section which transmits the deletion-objective job to the external device; and a deleting section which deletes the deletion-objective job from the storage section.