Patent ID: 6887003

Claim:
A printing system comprising: printing means for printing a continuous sheet based on printing data generated from image data; cutting means for cutting the continuous sheet; and printing mode control means for executing the printing according to a printing mode, which is selected, based on an instruction from a user, out of at least two printing modes comprising: a first printing mode in which a plurality of images are printed on the continuous sheet in a sheet feed direction without any margin and the continuous sheet is cut at a boundary between the images; a second printing mode in which a plurality of images are printed on the continuous sheet in the sheet feed direction with margins and the continuous sheet is cut at two places inside the image in the vicinity of boundaries between the image and each of the margins with respect to one image; and a third printing mode in which a plurality of images obtained by excluding upper and lower ends of an image area represented by the image data are printed on the continuous sheet in the sheet feed direction without any margin and the continuous sheet is cut at a boundary between the images.