Patent ID: 8585048

Claim:
A printing device, comprising: a registration section that once stops a transferred sheet and then feeds the transferred sheet toward a printing section; a sheet feed system that transfers and feeds a sheet to the registration section; a sheet refeed system that, during both-side printing, reverses a one-side printed sheet and transfers the one-side printed sheet to the registration section to refeed the one-side printed sheet; and a controller that, during one-sided printing, controls the registration section so as to feed a sheet, which is fed by the sheet feed system, toward the printing section in accordance with a first print schedule, and during both-side printing, controls the registration section so as to feed a sheet, which is fed by the sheet feed system, toward the printing section until a predetermined timing and after the predetermined timing alternately feed a sheet, which is fed by the sheet feed system and the sheet refeed system, toward the printing section in accordance with a second print schedule, wherein the controller controls the sheet feed system, during the one-sided printing, in accordance with the first print schedule to set a speed when a sheet fed from the sheet feed system is transferred to the registration section as a first speed and during the both-sided printing, in accordance with the second print schedule to set a speed when a sheet fed from the sheet feed system is transferred to the registration section as a second speed, wherein the second speed is lower than the first speed.