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US 10,380,465 B2Granted
Printing apparatus, control method of printing apparatus, and storage medium
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuuki Maeda
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Abstract
When a job for executing both of a one-sided printing and a two-sided printing, the lowering of the productivity is suppressed and an output result a user desires is output.
Claims7
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a printing unit configured to print image data on a sheet;
- a sheet feeding unit configured to feed the sheet from a sheet storage unit to the printing unit;
- a sheet re-feeding unit configured to be operable when two-sided printing is to be performed, to re-feed the sheet, printed on a front side of the sheet, toward the printing unit so as to print another image data on a back side of the sheet;
- a receiving unit configured to receive a print job for printing a first page of image data on a front side of a first sheet, printing a second page of image data on a front side of a second sheet, and printing a third page of image data on a back side of the second sheet;
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- a control unit configured to:
- specify a type of sheets that are to be used for the first and second sheets,
- control, in a case where the type of sheets is specified as pre-numbered sheets, the printing unit to print on the first and second sheets in the following order:
- firstly, the first page of image data is printed on the front side of the first sheet fed by the sheet feeding unit,
- secondly, the second page of image data is printed on the front side of the second sheet fed by the sheet feeding unit, and
- thirdly, the third page of image data is printed on the back side of the second sheet re-fed by the re-feeding unit, and
- control, in a case where the type of sheets is not specified as pre-numbered sheets, the printing unit to print on the first and second sheets in the following order:
- firstly, the second page of image data is printed on the front side of the second sheet fed by the sheet feeding unit,
- secondly, the first page of image data is printed on the front side of the first sheet fed by the sheet feeding unit, the first sheet being not re-fed by the re-feeding unit, and
- thirdly, the third page of image data is printed on the back side of the second sheet re-fed by the re-feeding unit.
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