Patent ID: 8469353

Claim:
A printing apparatus for executing a job with the use of sheets stored in at least one of a first sheet-feeding unit and a second sheet-feeding unit, each of the first sheet-feeding unit and the second sheet-feeding unit being able to store a plurality of sets of sheets, comprising: a holding unit configured to hold number information indicating the number of sheets included in one set of sheets; a determining unit configured to determine whether the amount of sheets that remain in the first sheet-feeding unit in which the plurality of sets of sheets have been stored and which is used for the execution of a job has reached a predetermined amount which is not zero; and a control unit configured to, if the last sheet which is determined by the number indicated by the number information held by the holding unit is fed from the first sheet-feeding unit after it is determined by the determining unit that the amount of sheets that remain in the first sheet-feeding unit has reached the predetermined amount, change the sheet-feeding unit that is used for the execution of the job from the first sheet-feeding unit to the second sheet-feeding unit in a state that at least one sheet remains in the first sheet feeding unit.