Patent ID: 7549623

Claim:
A printing apparatus which can feed paper of a plurality of sizes, including at least first, second and third paper sizes, wherein a paper of the first paper size can be fed in any of long-edge feeding and short-edge feeding directions, said printing apparatus comprising: a reception unit adapted to receive, from an external apparatus, a print job indicating that a plurality of paper sizes exist in mixture in the print job; a determination unit adapted to determine whether a paper of the first paper size is to be fed in the long-edge feeding direction or in the short-edge feeding direction, based on the print job received by said reception unit; and an output control unit adapted to output a printing product which aligns a length of the long edge of the first paper size and a length of one edge of the second paper size, if said determination unit determines that a paper of the first paper size is to be fed in the long-edge feeding direction, and output a printing product which aligns a length of the short edge of the first paper size and a length of one edge of the third paper size, if said determination unit determines that a paper of the first paper size is to be fed in the short-edge feeding direction.