Patent ID: 9427985
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: B41J

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 the feeding roller; a printing unit configured to perform printing on a first surface and a second surface of the printing sheet conveyed by the conveyance roller; a reverse conveyance guide configured to reverse the printing sheet having been printed on the first surface by the printing unit and convey the printing sheet to 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, wherein when continuously performing printing on the first surface of the succeeding sheet after printing on the first surface of the preceding sheet, the conveyance control unit forms the overlap state, and when continuously performing printing on the first surface of the succeeding sheet after printing on the second surface of the preceding sheet, the conveyance control unit does not form the overlap state; and a determination unit configured to determine, in a case where the overlap state is formed, 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.