Patent ID: 9370946
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: B41J,B65H

Claim Text:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a feeding roller configured to feed a printing sheet stacked on a stacking unit; 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 said conveyance roller; a conveyance 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 succedingly fed from the stacking unit overlap each other; a determination unit configured to determine whether the leading edge of the succeeding sheet overlaps the trailing edge of the preceding sheet; and a delay unit configured to delay conveyance of the preceding sheet when said determination unit determines that the leading edge of the succeeding sheet does not overlap the trailing edge of the preceding sheet.