Patent ID: 8786884

Claim:
A printing system including a plurality of sheet holding units, the printing system comprising: a setting unit configured to set a sheet attribute of a sheet held in a sheet holding unit; a storing unit configured to store the sheet attribute set by the setting unit for the sheet holding unit; an image forming unit configured to form an image on the sheet fed from the sheet holding unit; a control unit configured to switch, in a case where a sheet cannot be fed from a sheet holding unit used by image forming by the image forming unit, a feeding source for the image forming by the image forming unit for a sheet holding unit to another sheet holding unit, based on the sheet attribute stored in the storing unit; a determining unit configured to determine, in a case where a sheet attribute is set by the setting unit to a sheet holding unit, whether there is a second sheet holding unit to which the same sheet attribute as the sheet attribute which is set by the setting unit has been set by the setting unit, based on the sheet attribute stored in the storing unit; and a display unit configured to display, in a case where the determining unit determines that there is the second sheet holding unit information indicating that there is the second sheet holding unit to which the same sheet attribute which is set by the setting unit has been set by the setting unit, wherein the control unit is configured to permit, in a case where an instruction for setting the sheet attribute is received from a user after the display is executed by the display unit, setting the sheet attribute to the first sheet holding unit for switching the feeding source from the first sheet holding unit to another sheet holding unit.