Patent ID: 7401914
Filing Date: 2008-07-22
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: transport means for transporting a print medium along a transport path; printing means for printing on the print medium at a predetermined print position in the transport path; discharge means for discharging the print medium from the transport path; and double-sided printing control means for controlling the transport means, the printing means and the discharge means to execute a double-sided printing to print on a first surface and a second surface of the print medium; wherein the double-sided printing control means can select between a first mode and a second mode, wherein, in the first mode, the double-sided printing control means discharges all print mediums that have been printed according to a first print job, wherein, in the second mode, when the printing of a last page of print data of the first print job is ended on the first surface of a print medium, the double-sided printing control means controls the discharge means not to discharge the print medium, and to hold the print medium, whose first surface was printed, in the transport path, and when a second print job is received, the double-sided printing control means controls the print means to print a first page of print data of the second print job on the second surface of the print medium held in the transport path.