Patent ID: 7853168
Filing Date: 2010-12-14
Classification: B41J,G03G

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive a printing job including a plurality of pages of image data; a printing unit configured to perform printing processing on a plurality of substrates based on the printing job received by the receiving unit; a substrate discharge unit configured to discharge the plurality of substrates which has been subjected to the printing processing by the printing unit; a storage unit configured to store job information for specifying the printing job and substrate-discharge time-interval control information for controlling a substrate discharge time-interval at which the substrate discharge unit discharges the plurality of substrates to the substrate discharge section; a determination unit configured to, when the printing processing is performed based on the received printing job, determine whether there exists an already performed printing job that is substantially the same as the received printing job based on the job information stored in the storage unit; and a control unit configured to, when the determination units determines that the already performed printing job exists, control the substrate discharge time-interval based on the substrate-discharge time-interval control information corresponding to the performed printing job.