Patent ID: 9395942
Filing Date: 2016-07-19
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K

Claim Text:
1. A printing apparatus capable of double-sided printing and single-sided printing, comprising: a selection unit that selects, with regard to a print job for including a single-sided printing page and double-sided printing pages following the single-sided printing page, (i) a first print control in which printing of a page which is included in the double-sided printing pages and to be printed on a first surface of a sheet and printing of a page which is included in the double-sided printing pages and to be printed on a second surface of the sheet are performed after printing of the single-sided printing page, or (ii) a second print control in which printing of the page which is to be printed on the first surface of the sheet is performed before printing of the single-sided printing page and printing of the page which is to be printed on the second surface of the sheet is performed after printing of the single-sided printing page, based on a number of successive double-sided printing pages following the single-sided printing page in the print job; and a control unit configured to execute, when a print job for including a single-sided printing page and double-sided printing pages following the single-sided printing page is input, the print job according to the first print control or the second print control selected by the selecting unit.