Patent ID: 6682236
Filing Date: 2004-01-27
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
A printing apparatus comprising:a plurality of paper feeding units; a setting unit, adapted for setting a plurality of print medium types on said plurality of paper feeding units; a processing unit, adapted for analyzing data received from a host computer, for executing a discrimination of whether a print medium type designated in the received data coincides with one of the plurality of print medium types set for one of the plurality of paper feeding units by said setting unit, and for executing a selection of the one paper feeding unit if the designated print medium type coincides with the set print medium type, said processing unit executing the discrimination and the selection for a next one of the plurality of print medium types if the designated print medium type does not coincide with the set print medium type; and a print unit, adapted for printing data on a medium fed by one of the plurality of paper feeding units selected by said processing unit.