Printing apparatus and control method

A printing apparatus comprising:

• a feeding unit configured to feed a print medium to a first position;
• a conveyance unit capable of conveying, in a first direction, the print medium fed to the first position by the feeding unit;
• a printing unit configured to perform printing by applying ink to the print medium conveyed in the first direction by the conveyance unit;
• a reversal conveyance path configured to reverse the print medium to be conveyed in a second direction opposite to the first direction after printing using the printing unit, the reversal conveyance path meeting a conveyance path for a print medium conveyed in the first direction at a first junction on a downstream side of the printing unit with respect to the first direction and a second junction on an upstream side of the printing unit with respect to the first direction;
• a control unit configured to control the conveyance unit and the printing unit to execute printing on a first side and a second side opposite to the first side of a first print medium and a second print medium subsequent to the first print medium;
• an acquisition unit configured to acquire an application amount of the ink applied to a region of the first print medium conveyed through the reversal conveyance path that the second print medium being conveyed in the first direction contacts, the first print medium having the first side that has been printed;
• and
• a determination unit configured to determine a predetermined time for which the control unit keeps the second print medium on standby at the first position,
• wherein the region includes a first region located downstream of the printing unit with respect to the first direction and a second region located upstream with respect to the first direction and the acquisition unit acquires the application amount in the first region and the application amount in the second region, and
• wherein in a case of starting printing on the first side of the second print medium, in accordance with an application amount acquired by the acquisition unit, the determination unit determines the predetermined time.