Printing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8967754-B2
Application number	US-201313914796-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 11, 2013
Priority date	Jun 14, 2012
Publication date	Mar 3, 2015
Grant date	Mar 3, 2015

Abstract

A printing apparatus according to one aspect of the present invention sets a printing condition, which specifies a condition for permitting printing using a sheet, for that sheet in accordance with an instruction from a user. The printing apparatus then decides on a sheet feed tray, from a plurality of sheet feed units, for which printing using the sheet contained in the sheet feed unit is permitted, as a sheet feed source, based on the printing condition and printing settings including a setting regarding the sheet feed source for the sheet to be used in a print job. Furthermore, the printing apparatus executes the print job using the sheet contained in the sheet feed tray that has been decided on.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A printing apparatus capable of feeding sheets from a plurality of sheet feed units, the apparatus comprising:
a setting unit configured to set a printing condition, which specifies a condition for permitting printing using a sheet, for that sheet in accordance with an instruction from a user;
an extracting unit configured to extract, from a print job, printing settings including a setting regarding a sheet to be used in the print job;
a deciding unit co…

Assignees

• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Yano Takaaki

Classifications

• B41J13/0009 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J11/485 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic