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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 17, 2015
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Tomofumi Nishida, Yokohama, JP;
Noriyuki Sugiyama, Kawasaki, JP;
Yasuyuki Asai, Tokyo, JP;
Motoyuki Taguchi, Komae, JP;
Tetsuya Saito, Yokohama, JP;
Yoshiaki Suzuki, Nagareyama, JP;
Syunichi Kunihiro, Kawasaki, JP;
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A printing apparatus includes a feeding roller configured to feed a printing sheet stacked on a stacking unit, a conveyance roller configured to convey the printing sheet fed by the feeding roller, a printing unit configured to print the printing sheet conveyed by the conveyance roller, a conveyance control unit configured to control conveyance of printing sheets so that the trailing edge of a preceding sheet as a printing sheet precedingly fed from the stacking unit and the leading edge of a succeeding sheet as a printing sheet succeedingly fed from the stacking unit overlap each other, and a determination unit configured to determine whether to convey the succeeding sheet to a position facing the printing unit while keeping an overlap state between the preceding sheet and the succeeding sheet.