Patent ID: 8608155

Claim:
A printing apparatus which performs a sheet feeding operation of feeding a sheet to a predetermined position on a transport path by rotating a first roller, the printing apparatus comprising: a second roller that is disposed downstream in a transport direction as compared with the first roller transporting the sheet; a sheet detecting sensor that detects a sheet disposed at the predetermined position, wherein the sheet detecting sensor detects the sheet to complete the sheet feeding operation; a control unit formed of a microcomputer which stores a sheet length L 2 as a parameter used to determine when the sheet length L 2 in the direction of transporting the sheet is either greater than or equal to an amount of transport L 1 of the first roller or less than the amount of transport L 1 of the first roller; and a sheet re-feeding unit that, in cases where the sheet feeding operation is performed, but the sheet has not been transported to the predetermined position, feeds the sheet using a first sheet re-feeding operation in which the first roller and the second roller are rotated, if the sheet length L 2 in the direction of transporting the sheet≧the amount of transport L 1 of the first roller; and that feeds the sheet using a second sheet re-feeding operation in which the second roller is rotated without rotating the first roller if the sheet length L 2 in the direction of transporting the sheet<the amount of transport L 1 of the first roller.