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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2019
Riso Kagaku Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Atsushi Takata, Ibaraki, JP;
RISO KAGAKU CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes: a printer; a sheet feeder including sheet feed trays; a sheet discharger to discharge and hold sheets printed by the printer; and a controller. Upon unloading of the sheets from the sheet discharger, the controller: determines whether to perform switching of a sheet feed source from a first sheet feed tray which is a latest sheet feed source of the sheet feed trays to a second sheet feed tray which is a sheet feed tray other than the first sheet feed tray of the sheet feed trays, based on a first sheet remaining amount in the first sheet feed tray and a second sheet remaining amount in the second sheet feed tray; and, upon determining to perform the switching, controls the sheet feeder to switch the sheet feed source from the first sheet feed tray to the second sheet feed tray.