Patent ID: 9019522
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: B41J,G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus which has a plurality of sheet storage units, comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive, from an external apparatus, a print job in which one of the plurality of sheet storage units and one of a plurality of sheet sizes are designated; an obtaining unit configured to obtain a sheet size which is stored in association with the designated sheet storage unit; a determination unit configured to determine whether the sheet size obtained by the obtaining unit matches the designated sheet size; a detecting unit configured to detect that a sheet storage unit, among the plurality of sheet storage units, is closed after it is determined that the sheet size of a sheet stored in the designated sheet storage unit does not match the designated sheet size; a changing unit configured to change a sheet feeding source from the designated sheet storage unit to the sheet storage unit detected by the detecting unit; an accepting unit configured to accept a predetermined instruction from a user; and a setting unit configured to set a first mode in which a sheet is fed from the sheet storage unit detected by the detecting unit in response to accepting the predetermined instruction or a second mode in which a sheet is fed from the sheet storage unit detected by the detecting unit without accepting the predetermined instruction; wherein a sheet is fed from the sheet storage unit detected by the detecting unit in response to accepting the predetermined instruction in a case where the first mode is set, and a sheet is fed from the sheet storage unit detected by the detecting unit without accepting the predetermined instruction in a case where the second mode is set.