Patent ID: 8937740
Filing Date: 2015-01-20
Classification: B41J,G03G,G06K

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a plurality of sheet holding units; a storing unit configured to store information about an association between a sheet holding unit and a type of sheet for each of the plurality of sheet holding units; a reception unit configured to receive a designation of a type of sheet from a user; selecting unit configured to select, from among the plurality of sheet holding units, a sheet holding unit in which a sheet of the type of sheet corresponding to the designation received by the reception unit is to be set, based on the information stored by the storing unit, a type of a sheet that is used by a print job now being executed in the printing apparatus, and a type of a sheet that is going to be used by a queued print job in the printing apparatus; and a notification unit configured to notify the user to set a sheet of the type of sheet corresponding to the designation received by the reception unit in the sheet holding unit selected by the selecting unit.