Patent ID: 8390832

Claim:
A printing apparatus which includes a tray for setting a printing medium thereon and performs an initialization process upon turning on the printing apparatus, the printing apparatus comprising: an abnormal state detecting section which detects an abnormal state upon performing a power-off process; a first information storing section which stores a detection result of the abnormal state detecting section as first information; a tray position state detecting section which detects a position state of the tray; a tray moving section which moves the tray to a normal position in the case where the position state of the tray is abnormal on the basis of a detection result of the tray position state detecting section upon turning on the printing apparatus; a second information storing section which stores the detection result of the tray position state detecting section as second information; and an initialization process performing section which performs a second initialization process, in which a part of initialization items are omitted among plural initialization items of a first initialization process to be performed when the first information is abnormal, in the case where the first information is normal and the second information is abnormal.