Patent ID: 9667830
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: B42C,B42D,B65H,G06K,H04N

Claim:
1. A printing apparatus, comprising: a reversing unit configured to reverse a front and back of a printed sheet and then discharge the sheet; a determination unit configured to determine, upon receiving print data for bookbinding that includes image data of a front cover and a body, whether or not a sheet on which image data of the front cover is to be printed is a particular sheet; and a control unit configured to, when the determination unit determines that the sheet on which the image data of the front cover is to be printed is the particular sheet, control to execute by switching between: (i) a first control that prints on sheets image data of the body in an order from an end of the body toward a head of the body, discharges the printed sheets without reversing by the reversing unit, finally prints the image data of the front cover on the particular sheet, and discharges the particular sheet without reversing by the reversing unit, and (ii) a second control that firstly prints a mirror image of the image data of the front cover on the particular sheet, discharges the particular sheet without reversing by the reversing unit, next prints on sheets the image data of the body in an order from the head of the body toward the end of the body, reverses sheets on which the body has been printed by the reversing unit and discharges the reversed printed sheets.