Patent ID: 8482759

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a printing unit configured to perform printing processing; a first storing unit configured to store sheet information regarding a sheet available in the printing processing and setting permission information indicating whether to permit a specific printing setting when the printing processing is performed, wherein the sheet information and the setting permission information are stored in association with each other; a registration unit configured to register new sheet information; a second storing unit configured to store information which is referred to for determining sheet information corresponding to the new sheet information registered by the registration unit from among a plurality of pieces of sheet information previously stored in the first storing unit; a determining unit configured to determine particular sheet information corresponding to the new sheet information from among the plurality of pieces of sheet information previously stored in the first storing unit by referring to the information stored by the second storing unit; and a control unit configured to control the printing unit to perform the printing processing based on the setting permission information corresponding to the particular sheet information determined by the determining unit in a case where the printing processing using the new sheet information is performed, wherein the sheet information includes property information that indicates grammage of a sheet.