Patent ID: 9013751
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A printing apparatus having a plurality of sheet holding units, comprising: a conveying unit configured to convey sheets held in the plurality of sheet holding units; a printing unit configured to print images on the sheets conveyed by the conveying unit; a storing unit configured to store a sheet attribute, set for each of the plurality of sheet holding units; a setting unit configured to set more than one sheet holding unit as a group; and a changing unit configured to specify, when it is instructed to change a sheet attribute of a first sheet holding unit, a second sheet holding unit which belongs to a same group as the first sheet holding unit, and to change a sheet attribute of the specified second sheet holding unit, which is not equal to the changed sheet attribute of the first sheet holding unit, to a same sheet attribute as the changed sheet attribute of the first sheet holding unit, while maintaining a group to which the first sheet holding unit and the second sheet holding unit belong.