Patent ID: 9162494
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: B41J,B65H,G03G

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus having at least a first sheet feeding unit and a second sheet feeding unit, wherein the printing apparatus is capable of executing a print job for printing an image on a sheet fed from the first sheet feeding unit or the second sheet feeding unit, the printing apparatus comprising: a setting unit configured to perform a setting to set the first sheet feeding unit and the second sheet feeding unit as a group; and a control unit configured to perform control of sheet feeding, wherein the control unit is configured to perform control of the sheet feeding in such a manner that a sheet is fed from a sheet feeding unit of either one of the first sheet feeding unit and the second sheet feeding unit, in a case where the group is designated in the print job, and to perform control of the sheet feeding to be continued by switching the sheet feeding unit to another one of the first sheet feeding unit and the second sheet feeding unit, in a case where a sheet shortage occurs, and wherein, the control unit is configured to perform control of the sheet feeding in such a manner that a sheet is fed from a designated sheet feeding unit, in a case where the first sheet feeding unit or the second sheet feeding unit is designated in the print job, and to perform control of the sheet feeding in such a manner that switching to another one of the first sheet feeding unit and the second sheet feeding unit is not to be performed, even in a case where a sheet shortage occurs, wherein, in a case where the group is designated in the print job, the control unit determines that a sheet shortage occurs if a remaining sheet amount of a currently used sheet feeding unit becomes a predetermined amount.