Printing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium

A method of controlling a printing apparatus including a feeding roller configured to feed a printing sheet, a conveyance roller configured to convey the printing sheet fed by the feeding roller, and a printing unit configured to print the printing sheet conveyed by the conveyance roller, the method comprising:

• controlling conveyance of printing sheets so that an overlap state, in which a trailing edge of a preceding sheet as a printing sheet precedingly fed by the feeding roller and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet as a printing sheet succeedingly fed by the feeding roller overlap each other, is formed;
• and
• determining whether to convey the succeeding sheet to a position facing the printing unit while keeping the overlap state or to convey the succeeding sheet to the position facing the printing unit after the overlap state has been cancelled,
• wherein if a start position of a printing operation of the succeeding sheet cannot be confirmed before the printing unit performs a printing operation of a last row of the preceding sheet, in the determining, it is determined to convey the succeeding sheet to the position facing the printing unit after the overlap state has been cancelled.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute each step of a method of controlling a printing apparatus including a feeding roller configured to feed a printing sheet, a conveyance roller configured to convey the printing sheet fed by the feeding roller, and a printing unit configured to print the printing sheet conveyed by the conveyance roller,

• the method comprising:
• controlling conveyance of printing sheets so that an overlap state, in which a trailing edge of a preceding sheet as a printing sheet precedingly fed by the feeding roller and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet as a printing sheet succeedingly fed by the feeding roller overlap each other, is formed;
• and
• determining whether to convey the succeeding sheet to a position facing the printing unit while keeping the overlap state or to convey the succeeding sheet to the position facing the printing unit after the overlap state has been cancelled,
• wherein if a start position of a printing operation of the succeeding sheet cannot be confirmed before the printing unit performs a printing operation of a last row of the preceding sheet, in the determining, it is determined to convey the succeeding sheet to the position facing the printing unit after the overlap state has been cancelled.