Patent ID: 8805229

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a plurality of sheet stacking units including at least a first sheet stacking unit and a second sheet stacking unit; an input unit configured to input a print job to which first characteristic value information representing a range of characteristic values of a sheet to be used for the print job is set; a storage unit configured to store, for at least the first sheet stacking unit and the second sheet stacking unit, second characteristic value information representing a characteristic value of a sheet stacked in a sheet stacking unit; a selection unit configured to select, when the print job is inputted, a sheet stacking unit having stacked a sheet within the range of the characteristic values represented by the first characteristic value information, from among the plurality of sheet stacking units, based on the second characteristic value information stored in the storage unit; a feeding unit configured to feed the sheet form the sheet stacking unit selected by the selection unit; and a printing unit configured to perform print processing of the print job using the sheet fed by the feeding unit, wherein the feeding unit does not feed a sheet in a case where there is no sheet stacking unit having stacked a sheet within the range of the characteristic values represented by the first characteristic value information, among the plurality of sheet stacking units.