Printing apparatus, control method for printing apparatus, and storage medium

A printing apparatus comprising:

• a grouping unit configured to group a plurality of sheet storage units that stores sheets to be supplied to a printing unit based on sheet group settings of the printing apparatus;
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• a reception unit configured to receive, from an external printing apparatus, sheet storage unit group settings of the external printing apparatus including information of sheets stored in each of a plurality of sheet storage units provided in the external printing apparatus, and information with regard to grouping settings of sheet storage units in the external printing apparatus;
• a determination unit configured to determine whether a sheet storage unit group with a same configuration as that of the sheet storage unit group of the external printing apparatus can be formed in the printing apparatus, based on the sheet storage unit group settings of the external printing apparatus including the information concerning grouping settings and the information of the sheets, received by the reception unit,
• wherein the grouping unit performs grouping, when the determination unit determines that a sheet configuration with the same configuration as that of the sheet storage unit group of the external printing apparatus can be formed in the printing apparatus, so as to correspond to grouping settings in the external printing apparatus, based on the sheet storage unit group settings of the external printing apparatus including the information concerning grouping settings and the information of the sheets, received by the reception unit,
• wherein configurations of the sheets in the sheet storage units which belong to the sheet storage group of the external printing apparatus are formed to become the same as the sheet storage units of the printing apparatus based on sheet storage unit group settings differences between the printing apparatus and the external printing apparatus.

A printing apparatus including a plurality of sheet storage units that stores sheets to be supplied to a printing unit, the printing apparatus comprising:

• a reception unit configured to receive, from an external printing apparatus in which a sheet storage unit group constituted by arbitrary sheet storage units of a plurality of sheet storage units has been formed, sheet storage unit group settings of the external printing apparatus including paper information that is information of the sheets stored in respective sheet storage units that constitute the sheet storage unit group;
• a determination unit configured to determine whether a sheet storage unit group with a same configuration as that of the sheet storage unit group of the external printing apparatus can be formed in the printing apparatus, based on the sheet storage unit group settings of the external printing apparatus including the paper information of the sheets stored in the respective sheet storage units, received by the reception unit;
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• a control unit configured to control, when the determination unit determines that a sheet configuration with the same configuration as that of the sheet storage unit group of the external printing apparatus cannot be formed in the printing apparatus, not to form in the printing apparatus a sheet storage unit group corresponding to a sheet storage unit group formed previously in the external printing apparatus, if sheets stored in each of a plurality of sheet storage units which the printing apparatus has and sheets stored in each of a plurality of sheet storage units which the external printing apparatus has are different from each other,
• wherein configurations of the sheets in the sheet storage units which belong to the sheet storage group of the external printing apparatus are formed to become the same as the sheet storage units of the printing apparatus based on differences between the sheet storage unit group settings of the external printing apparatus and the sheet storage unit group settings of the printing apparatus.

A control method for a printing apparatus including a plurality of sheet storage units that stores sheets to be supplied to a printing unit, the control method comprising:

• receiving, from an external printing apparatus in which a sheet storage unit group constituted by arbitrary sheet storage units of a plurality of sheet storage units has been formed, sheet storage unit group settings of the external printing apparatus including paper information that is information of sheets stored in respective sheet storage units that constitute the sheet storage unit group;
• determining whether a sheet storage unit group with a same configuration as that of the sheet storage unit group of the external printing apparatus can be formed in the printing apparatus, based on the information of the sheets stored in each of the plurality of sheet storage units which the external printing apparatus has, and the sheet storage unit group settings of the external printing apparatus including the paper information received by the printing apparatus from the external printing apparatus;
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• forming sheet storage unit group settings of the printing apparatus and a sheet storage unit group corresponding to the sheet storage unit group formed in the external printing apparatus using arbitrary sheet storage units of the plurality of sheet storage units which the printing apparatus has, when the determining determines that a sheet configuration with the same configuration as that of the sheet storage unit group of the external printing apparatus can be formed in the printing apparatus, based on the information of sheets stored in each of the plurality of sheet storage units which the external printing apparatus has, and sheet storage unit group settings of the external printing apparatus including paper information received by the reception unit,
• wherein configurations of the sheets in the sheet storage units which belong to the sheet storage group of the external printing apparatus are formed to become the same as the sheet storage units of the printing apparatus based on differences between the sheet storage unit group settings of the external printing apparatus and the sheet storage unit group settings of the printing apparatus.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer programs for causing a computer to execute a control method for a printing apparatus including a plurality of sheet storage units that stores sheets to be supplied to a printing unit, the control method comprising:

• receiving, from an external printing apparatus in which a sheet storage unit group constituted by arbitrary sheet storage units of a plurality of sheet storage units has been formed, sheet storage unit group settings of the external printing apparatus including paper information that is information of sheets stored in respective sheet storage units that constitute the sheet storage unit group;
• determining whether a sheet storage unit group with a same configuration as that of the sheet storage unit group of the external printing apparatus can be formed in the printing apparatus, based on the on the information of sheets stored in each of the plurality of sheet storage units which the external printing apparatus has, and sheet storage unit group settings of the external printing apparatus including paper information received by the reception unit;
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• forming sheet storage unit group settings of the printing apparatus and a sheet storage unit group corresponding to the sheet storage unit group formed in the external printing apparatus using arbitrary sheet storage units of the plurality of sheet storage units which the printing apparatus has, when the determining determines that a sheet configuration with the same configuration as that of the sheet storage unit group of the external printing apparatus can be formed in the printing apparatus, based on the information of sheets stored in each of the plurality of sheet storage units which the external printing apparatus has, and sheet storage unit group settings of the external printing apparatus including paper information received by the reception unit,
• wherein configurations of the sheets in the sheet storage units which belong to the sheet storage group of the external printing apparatus are formed to become the same as the sheet storage units of the printing apparatus based on differences between the sheet storage unit group settings of the external printing apparatus and the sheet storage unit group settings of the printing apparatus.