Printer having a plurality of paper cassettes and method of selecting a paper cassette from the paper cassettes

A printer, wherein a page of print paper is fed from a paper cassette to a print engine, the paper cassette being selected from a plurality of paper cassettes, said printer comprising:

• a print information memory that stores print information contained in print data therein, the print information representing a size of the print paper;
• a paper information memory that stores paper information representing a size of the print paper and an orientation of the print paper accommodated in a paper cassette most recently selected;
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• a cassette selector that selects a paper cassette accommodating print paper of a predetermined orientation when a printing job is a first printing job performed after the printer is powered on, and which selects a paper cassette accommodating print paper of an orientation different from that of the paper in the paper cassette most recently selected when at least one printing job has been performed after the printer is powered on.

A method of selecting a paper cassette from a plurality of paper cassettes accommodated in a printer in accordance with print information contained in print data, said method comprising the steps of:

• selecting a predetermined orientation of print paper if the print information specifies a size of print paper that is different from a size of print paper accommodated in a paper cassette most recently selected, the orientation being with respect to a direction in which the print paper is fed from the cassette to a print engine;
• selecting a first paper cassette which accommodates print paper of a size specified by the print information and of the predetermined orientation;
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• selecting a second paper cassette when the print information specifies print paper of a same size as the print paper accommodated in the paper cassette most recently selected, the second paper cassette accommodating print paper of an orientation that is different from that of the paper in the cassette selected.