A user terminal device having a spooling control function and a control method thereof, the user terminal device comprising a spooling part to spool print data, a monitoring part to monitor the image forming apparatus, and a driver part to compare time when the print data is input to the spooling part with present time if the image forming apparatus is determined to be available by the monitoring part, and to determine whether to process a printing job for the print data according to a comparison result between the input time and the present time. Accordingly, unnecessary print data stored in the spooler can be prevented from printing.