Patent ID: 9598253
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: B41J,B65H

Claim:
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 succeedingly fed from the stacking unit overlap each other; an acquisition unit configured to acquire, before completion of a printing operation of the preceding sheet, information of a leading edge position of the succeeding sheet after alignment of the succeeding sheet; and a determination unit configured to determine whether to convey the succeeding sheet to a position facing said printing unit while keeping an overlap state between the preceding sheet and the succeeding sheet in accordance with the leading edge position of the succeeding sheet after alignment of the succeeding sheet.