Printing apparatus and printing apparatus control method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9002255-B2
Application number	US-201213343048-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 4, 2012
Priority date	Jan 17, 2011
Publication date	Apr 7, 2015
Grant date	Apr 7, 2015

Abstract

A printing apparatus of this invention includes a printing unit that executes print processing for a sheet, and feeding units that respectively store sheets conveyable to the printing unit. The printing apparatus identifies a sheet to undergo print processing, based on obtained print job data, and searches the feeding units for a feeding unit storing the identified sheet. The printing apparatus, when it detects the feeding unit storing the identified sheet, controls the printing unit to execute print processing based on the print job data for the sheet fed from the feeding unit, and when it cannot detect the feeding unit storing the identified sheet, executes avoiding processing regarding the print processing.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A printing apparatus comprising:
a setting unit configured to set, based on a designation by a user, whether to permit or unexceptionally inhibit print processing for a preprinted sheet which can be used as any of an inserting sheet and a print target;
an accepting unit configured to accept a print job;
a determining unit configured to determine, in a case where the preprinted sheet is designated in the print job and the preprinted sheet is used not as t…

Assignees

• Kanamoto Yoshiji
• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Kanamoto Yoshiji

Classifications

• B41J11/485 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B41J3/46

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic