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Printing apparatus capable of assigning a piece of sheet information to a feed tray

US8994971B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 28, 2013
Grant dateMar 31, 2015
Priority date
Expiry dateMay 28, 2033

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06K15/1823
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A printing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of sheet feed trays, stores sheet information including property information indicating a property of a sheet and sheet feed tray information indicating a sheet feed tray to which the sheet is allowed to be assigned, and selects a sheet feed tray from the plurality of sheet feed trays based on a designation made by a user. The printing apparatus further displays a sheet allowed to be assigned to the selected sheet feed tray based on the stored sheet information and assigns, to the selected sheet feed tray, a sheet designated by the user from among the displayed sheets.

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