Patent ID: 8879088

Claim:
A printing apparatus capable of outputting a sheet to one of a first discharge unit and a second discharge unit, the printing apparatus comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive a print job designating the first discharge unit or the second discharge unit to execute post-processing and output the print job, wherein the first discharge unit is configured to require authentication information to extract the sheet and the second discharge unit is configured not to require the authentication information to discharge the sheet; and a control unit configured to control the printing apparatus to execute post-processing to a sheet on which an image is printed by executing the print job and to output the sheet to the second discharge unit when the print job received by the receiving unit designates the second discharge unit to execute the post-processing and output the print job, wherein the control unit controls the printing apparatus to store in a storage unit, as a post-authentication print job whose printing starts after authentication using the authentication information, the print job received by the receiving unit when the print job designates the first discharge unit to execute the post-processing and output the print job.