Patent ID: 8169645
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus that prints print data on a recording medium fed from a feeding unit and discharges the recording medium printed with the print data onto a discharge tray based on a capacity of the discharge tray, the printing apparatus comprising: a storage unit that stores therein print data; an obtaining unit configured to compare a number of sheets of the recording media to be printed corresponding to the stored print data to a threshold that corresponds to the capacity of the discharge tray, and to obtain, from the print data stored in the storage unit, print data of pages corresponding to a number of sheets of the recording media equal to the threshold as target print data, when the number of sheets to be printed exceeds the threshold, the target print data including first print data of odd pages and second print data of even pages; and a printing unit configured to sequentially print the first print data on a first side of recording media, to discharge the recording media onto the discharge tray, and to sequentially print the second print data on a second side of the recording media manually returned from the discharge tray to the feeding unit, wherein the obtaining unit is configured to subtract the threshold from the number of sheets to be printed to obtain a subtracted value, when the number of sheets to be printed exceeds the threshold, to repeatedly obtain additional target print data when the subtracted value exceeds the threshold, and to cause the printing unit to print the first and second print data, until the subtracted value is less than the threshold.