Patent ID: 8727333

Claim:
A printing apparatus comprising: a storage device including a storage area configured to store therein print data of a predetermined number of pages; a sheet accommodation device including at least one sheet accommodation section configured to accommodate therein a plurality of sheets before printing; a printing device configured to print an image on a sheet based on the print data stored in the storage area; a discharged sheet accommodation device including at least one discharged sheet accommodation section configured to accommodate the sheet on which the image has been printed by the printing device; a conveyance device configured to convey a sheet from the sheet accommodation device to the discharged sheet accommodation device via the printing device; and a control device configured to: select an execution combination of a usable one of the at least one sheet accommodation section and a usable one of the at least one discharged sheet accommodation section such that the storage device completes storing print data into the storage area by a conveyance starting time of a sheet to be printed based on the print data, and not select a combination of one of the at least one sheet accommodation section and one of the at least one discharged sheet accommodation section, with which the storage device does not complete storing the print data into the storage area by the conveyance starting time of the sheet to be printed based on the print data, when making a selection on at least one of the sheet accommodation device and the discharged sheet accommodation device; and control the conveyance device to feed the sheet to be printed based on the print data from the sheet accommodation section of the selected execution combination to the discharged sheet accommodation section of the selected execution combination, on a condition that the storage device completes storing the print data in the storage area.