Patent ID: 9285739
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: B41L,G03G,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A printing apparatus capable of performing duplex printing, comprising: an assigning unit configured to assign original images of a plurality of pages to front and back surfaces of each of a plurality of sheets, wherein assignment of the original images is performed, in both of a case of normal order output being instructed and a case of reverse order output being instructed, in turn from a first page of the plurality of pages, and a blank page is assigned when a number of consecutive pages of a same size is an odd number; and a printing control unit configured to, when the normal order output is instructed, control to print the original images from a sheet to which the assigning unit assigns an original image of the first page out of the plurality of pages, and when the reverse order output is instructed, control to print the original images from a sheet to which the assigning unit assigns an original image of a final page out of the plurality of pages, wherein printing of the original images is performed based on a result of the assignment in which the original images are assigned in turn from the first page of the plurality of pages, in both of the case of the normal order output being instructed and the case of the reverse order output being instructed.