Patent ID: 9180700
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: B41J,B65H,G03G

Abstract:
1. A print control apparatus to discharge sheets printed by a printing unit to a plurality of discharging destinations, the print control apparatus comprising: a specifying unit configured to specify a plural number of discharging destinations, from the plurality of discharging destinations, required to discharge output sheets of a print job on which a printing operation of the print job is to be executed by the printing unit; a determination unit configured to determine whether a number of adjoining discharging destinations that have no sheets in the plurality of discharging destinations is equal to or more than the required plural number of discharging destinations specified by the specifying unit; and a selecting unit configured to select a discharging destination to be used to receive output sheets from the executed print job, wherein, in a case where the determination unit determines that the number of adjoining discharging destinations that have no sheets in the plurality of discharging destinations is less than the required plural number of discharging destinations specified by the specifying unit, the selecting unit selects the required plural number of discharging destinations such that the discharging destinations to be used to receive the output sheets are located as close to each other as possible.