Patent ID: 8363268
Filing Date: 2013-01-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A printing system comprising: a feeding control unit configured to cause a sheet feeding unit to feed a sheet as a first type of partition for partitioning a plurality of sheets on which images are printed by a printing unit; and a control unit configured to perform, in a case where there is no first type of partition in the sheet feeding unit and a first substitution operation can be performed, the first substitution operation, and to perform, in a case where there is no first type of partition in the first feeding unit and the first substitution operation cannot be performed, a second substitution operation which is different from the first substitution operation, wherein each of the first substitution operation and the second substitution operation is one of: (1) an operation for causing another sheet feeding unit to feed the first type of partition; (2) an operation for causing another sheet feeding unit to feed a second type of partition; and (3) an operation for causing a shift discharge unit to perform shift discharge operation for shifting the sheets in units of sheets to be partitioned.