1. A printing apparatus comprising: an embedding unit that embeds identification information for identifying pages to be printed with respect to image information representing images per page to be printed on each page of a recording medium; and a processing unit which, when performing predetermined processing relating to printing with respect to each image information set in which the identification information has been embedded, determines whether or not the processing order is a predetermined page order on the basis of the identification information that has been embedded in each image information set and, when the processing order is the predetermined page order, performs the predetermined processing in a state where the identification information remains embedded with respect to the image information serving as the determination target.