Patent ID: 9448746
Filing Date: 2016-09-20
CPC Classification: G03G,G06F

Claim Text:
1. A printing apparatus, comprising: a printer configured to print an image on a sheet; a button or key configured to operate to input a user instruction; a sheet processor configured to perform sheet processing to a sheet; a sheet holder configured to hold a sheet to which printing by the printer is not to be performed but the sheet processing by the sheet processor is to be performed; a sheet detector configured to detect a sheet being held in the sheet holder; and a setting holder configured to hold a setting relating to, and defining at least one characteristic of, the sheet processing by the sheet processor, wherein, in response to the user instruction via the button or key, the sheet processor performs the sheet processing on the sheet held in the sheet holder based on the setting held by the setting holder such that the setting affects how the sheet processing is performed; and at least one processor that operates to clear the setting held by the setting holder after the sheet processor performs the sheet processing, wherein the at least one processor is configured (i) to clear the setting held by the setting holder if a predetermined time elapses in a state that the sheet detector detects no sheet in the sheet holder after the sheet processor performs the sheet processing based on the setting held by the setting holder in response to the user instruction via the button or key, and (ii) not to clear the setting held by the setting holder if the sheet detector detects a sheet newly set in the sheet holder until the predetermined time elapses after the sheet processor performs the sheet processing based on the setting held by the setting holder in response to the user instruction via the button or key so as to cause the sheet processor to perform the sheet processing on the newly set sheet based on the setting held by the setting holder.