A printing apparatus includes: a receiving section which receives a printing job having a term of validity and printing data from an external device; a storage section in which the printing job received by the receiving section is stored; an input section which accepts a printing instruction to perform printing based on the printing job stored in the storage section; a printing section which performs the printing based on the printing job stored in the storage section in a case that the input section accepts the printing instruction; and a processing section which is configured to include: an obtaining section configured to obtain an information of free-space capacity of the storage section under a condition that the receiving section receives the printing job; and a determining section configured to determine a predetermined storage capacity for the printing job based on the term of validity of the printing job.