Patent ID: 8430586

Claim:
An apparatus capable of duplex printing, comprising: a sheet feeding unit configured to feed a sheet, wherein the sheet is continuous; a print unit configured to perform printing on the sheet fed from the sheet feeding unit; a cutter unit capable of cutting the sheet, which has been printed by the print unit, at a trailing edge of a print region and into a plurality of cut sheets; a discharge unit configured to discharge the cut sheets; a reverse unit configured to temporarily store the sheet for reversing and sheet feeding the reversed sheet to the printing unit again; a detecting unit configured to detect a disabled state in which cut sheets cannot be discharged at the discharge unit; and a control unit, wherein upon the disabled state being detected by the detecting unit while printing, the control unit controls to continue printing at the printing unit, and evacuate the sheet printed to the reverse unit for temporarily storing, without cutting into the cut sheets, and wherein after the disabled state is resolved, the control unit controls to send the sheet, which has been evacuated to the reverse unit, to the cutter unit so as to be cut into the cut sheets, and to discharge the cut sheets at the discharge unit.