Patent ID: 8894065

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a conveying unit for conveying a sheet through a conveying path; a printing unit located downstream of the conveying unit for printing onto the sheet; a sheet discharging unit located downstream of the printing unit for discharging the sheet from the conveying path to a sheet discharging position; a sheet feeding unit located upstream of the conveying unit for feeding the sheet to the conveying path; a driving unit for driving the conveying unit, the sheet discharging unit, and the sheet feeding unit; and a control unit configured to control the driving unit so that a first sheet and a second sheet fed subsequently to the first sheet are conveyed at a first conveying speed after a leading end of the first sheet is placed at a sheet feeding control position set upstream of a printing start position where the printing unit starts printing and before a trailing end of the first sheet is placed at a sheet discharging standby position where the first sheet can be discharged from the sheet discharging unit to the sheet discharging position at a predetermined sheet discharging speed, and then the first sheet and the second sheet are conveyed at a second conveying speed higher than the first conveying speed after the trailing end of the first sheet is positioned at the sheet discharging standby position and before the first sheet is discharged, and a leading end of the second sheet is placed at the sheet feeding control position.