Patent ID: 8262078
Filing Date: 2012-09-11
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a first feeding unit configured to separate a sheet from other sheets using air and to feed the sheet; a second feeding unit configured to feed a sheet using a roller; an accepting unit configured to accept a first print job for printing an image on the sheet fed from the first feeding unit and a second print job for printing an image on the sheet fed from the second feeding unit; a determination unit configured to determine whether the first feeding unit can feed the sheet existing in the first feeding unit or the first feeding unit cannot feed the sheet existing in the first feeding unit; and a control unit configured to execute, in a case where the determination unit determines that the first feeding unit cannot feed the sheet existing in the first feeding unit, the second print job accepted after accepting the first print job, prior to executing of the first print job.