Patent ID: 9360819
Filing Date: 2016-06-07
CPC Classification: B65H,G03G

Claim Text:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a feeding roller configured to feed a printing sheet; a conveyance roller configured to convey the printing sheet fed by said feeding roller; a printing unit configured to print on the printing sheet conveyed by the conveyance roller; a conveyance control unit configured to control conveyance of printing sheets so that an overlap state, in which a trailing edge of a preceding sheet as a printing sheet precedingly fed by the feeding roller and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet as a printing sheet succeedingly fed by the feeding roller overlap each other, is formed between the feeding roller and the conveyance roller; a determination unit configured to determine whether to convey the succeeding sheet to a position facing the printing unit while keeping the overlap state or to convey the succeeding sheet to the position after the overlap state has been cancelled; and a skew correction control unit configured to execute a skew correction operation in which a leading edge of the printing sheet abuts against the conveyance roller, wherein the skew correction control unit changes a timing when the skew correction operation for the succeeding sheet is executed according to a determination result of the determination unit.