Patent ID: 7133147

Claim:
An image-processing apparatus comprising: an input unit for inputting image data; a printer which prints an image on a recording material based on the image data input by said input unit; an accommodating unit for accommodating preloaded recording material; a manual-feeding unit for feeding the recording material; a size-detection unit for detecting, as feeding of the recording material begins, a size of the image data input by said input unit; a determining unit for determining, based on the size of the image data detected by said size-detection unit, a recording-material size appropriate for recording the image data input by said input unit; a display for displaying, when feeding is to be performed by said manual-feeding unit, the recording-material size determined by said determining unit; a memory which stores the image data input by said input unit, and a controller which controls said memory so as to hold the image data after completion of a printing operation in a case where said printer prints the image onto the recording medium fed by said manual feeding unit.