Patent ID: 6259468
Filing Date: 2001-07-10
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
An apparatus comprising:selecting means for selecting one of a plurality of paper feeding units feeding a recording paper for a printing process;recognition means for recognizing, during a printing process on a recording paper fed by the selected paper feeding unit, a change in a status of at least one of the paper feeding units other than the selected paper feeding unit; andexecuting means for executing a predetermined process in accordance with the status change recognized by said recognition means,wherein said executing means has switching means that, when recording papers of a more proper size for execution of the printing process, as compared with a size of the recording papers in the selected paper feeding unit, are newly supplied to one of the other paper feeding units, switches the paper feeding unit to actually perform the paper feed from the selected paper feeding unit to the paper feeding unit to which the recording papers of the more proper size were newly supplied.