Patent ID: 8517369
Filing Date: 2013-08-27
Classification: B65H

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus for conveying a sheet from any one of a plurality of sheet storage units configured to store sheets and printing an image on the conveyed sheet, the printing apparatus comprising: a registering unit configured to register two or more of the plurality of sheet storage units as a group; a printing unit configured to continue printing by switching a sheet conveyance source to another of the two or more sheet storage units registered as the group in a case where an amount of sheets set in one of the two or more sheet storage units registered as the group by the registering unit becomes a predetermined amount or lower when printing using the sheet storage unit is in progress; a receiving unit configured to receive an instruction to open any one of the plurality of sheet storage units; and a control unit configured to permit opening the instructed sheet storage unit by the instruction in a case where the receiving unit receives the instruction during execution of printing and the instructed sheet storage unit does not belong to the same group as that of the sheet storage unit used in the printing, and restrict opening the instructed sheet storage unit by the instruction in a case where the receiving unit receives the instruction during execution of printing and the instructed sheet storage unit belongs to the same group as that of the sheet storage unit being used in the printing.