Printing apparatus, control method therefor, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A control method for a printing apparatus capable of supporting a plurality of sheet types, comprising the steps of:

• receiving a plurality of print jobs;
• analyzing each received print job;
• sorting the plurality of received print jobs;
• printing by sequentially executing the plurality of sorted print jobs;
• and
• heating a printed sheet to fix a printing material on the sheet,
• wherein in the analyzing step, a sheet type used to execute each print job is specified, and a temperature for fixing the printing material on the sheet type is also specified as a fixing temperature, and
• in the sorting step, while a given print job is executed, a plurality of print jobs in a print standby state are sorted, based on an analysis result in the analyzing, so that print jobs using the same sheet type are subsequently executed and the fixing temperatures corresponding to the print jobs are sorted in predetermined order,
• wherein the sorting step compares, while the given print job is executed, a temperature of the heating unit with the fixing temperatures corresponding to the plurality of print jobs to be sorted,
• performs, based on a comparison result, the sorting so that the predetermined order is descending order or ascending order of the fixing temperature,
• performs the sorting so the predetermined order is ascending order of the fixing temperature in a case where the fixing temperatures corresponding the print jobs to be sorted are higher than the temperature of the heating unit and so the predetermined order is descending order of the fixing temperature in a case where the fixing temperatures corresponding the print jobs to be sorted are lower than the temperature of the heating unit, and
• performs the sorting so the predetermined order is ascending order of the fixing temperature in a case where the fixing temperatures corresponding the print jobs to be sorted are higher than the temperature of the heating unit and so the predetermined order is descending order of the fixing temperature in a case where the fixing temperatures corresponding the print jobs to be sorted are lower than the temperature of the heating unit.