Patent ID: 9333773
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: B41J

Claim Text:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a feeding unit configured to feed a printing sheet stacked on a stacking unit; a conveyance unit configured to convey the printing sheet fed by the feeding unit; a printing unit configured to print the printing sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit; and a control unit configured to control conveyance of printing sheets so that a trailing edge of a preceding sheet as a printing sheet precedingly fed from the stacking unit and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet as a printing sheet succeedingly fed from the stacking unit overlap each other, wherein based on an ink amount to be applied to an area of a predetermined range from at least one of the leading edge of the succeeding sheet and the trailing edge of the preceding sheet, the control unit decides an overlapping amount of an area where the trailing edge of the preceding sheet and the leading edge of the succeeding sheet overlap each other.