Patent ID: 8646769
Filing Date: 2014-02-11
Classification: B41J,B65H,G03G

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus for executing a job with sheets stored in at least one of a first sheet-feeding unit and a second sheet-feeding unit, each of the first sheet-feeding unit and the second sheet-feeding unit being able to store a plurality of sets of sheets, comprising: a holding unit configured to hold number information indicating the number of sheets included in one set of sheets; a determining unit configured to determine whether the amount of sheets that remain in the first sheet-feeding unit in which the plurality of sets of sheets have been stored and which is used for the execution of a job has reached a predetermined amount which is not zero; and a control unit configured to change, after it is determined by the determining unit that the amount of sheets that remain in the first sheet-feeding unit has reached the predetermined amount, the sheet-feeding unit that is used for the execution of the job from the first sheet-feeding unit to the second sheet-feeding unit in a state that at least one sheet remains in the first sheet feeding unit, wherein the control unit controls, after it is determined by the determining unit that the amount of sheets that remain in the first sheet-feeding unit has reached the predetermined amount, to feed the last sheet which is determined by the number indicated by the number information held by the holding unit from the first sheet-feeding unit.