Abstract: A printing apparatus includes a printing unit that prints images on sheets, a sheet processing unit that executes bookbinding processing on sheets on which images have been printed by the printing unit, a stack control unit that stacks, in a stacking unit, bookbinding products on which bookbinding processing has been executed by the sheet processing unit, a setting unit that sets whether or not to activate a stacking limit of bookbinding products to be stacked on the stacking unit by the stack limiting unit, and a control unit that performs control so as to stop stacking in the stacking unit by the stack control unit in accordance with the stacking limit in the case where the stacking limit of bookbinding products has been set to activated by the setting unit.

Abstract: If the temperature of a fixing unit is not stable when automatic gradation correction is performed, an error occurs in gradation correction when a chart for gradation measurement is output. An image forming apparatus of the present invention is characterized by including a unit configured to transfer a toner image based on image data onto a sheet, to pass the sheet through a fixing unit, and to output a first chart, a unit configured to create a conversion table for gradation correction using a value obtained by reading the output first chart, and a stabilization processing unit configured to stabilize the fixing unit by outputting a second chart before outputting the first chart when creation of the conversion table for gradation correction is instructed, wherein the stabilization processing unit outputs the second chart in a number of sheets specified in advance by a user.

Abstract: A printing system is operable to enable a printing apparatus to continue a printing of a print job by using printing media of a second supply source after using printing media of a first supply source without expending all of printing media of the first supply source. The printing media included in the first supply source are the same size and type as the printing media included in the second supply source.

Abstract: Depending on a sheet used in printing, in some cases, a user desires to perform printing without an effect of an abnormal pixel, and in other cases, the user desires prompt execution of the reading of a document. Therefore, a method includes determining whether second image data includes an abnormal pixel, the second image data being generated by a reading unit performing reading with no document placed at a reading position, and performing control so that the determining is performed in a case where a sheet on which an image is to be printed by a printing unit is a sheet that is to be subjected to the determining, and performing control so that the determining is not performed in a case where the sheet on which the image is to be printed by the printing unit is a sheet that is not to be subjected to the determining.

Abstract: A printing system, a printing apparatus, a method of controlling the same and a storage medium. The printing apparatus determines whether a sheet jam occurs while print processing is performed, interrupts the print processing in a case where it is determined that the sheet jam occurs, and conveys a sheet remaining on a sheet conveyance path to a sheet holding unit. The apparatus detects whether or not there is a sheet in the sheet holding unit, and makes a notification to a user instructing removal, from the sheet holding unit, of a sheet in a case where it is detected that there is a sheet in the sheet holding unit.

Abstract: A printing apparatus performs printing with the use of sheets of paper set in any of a plurality of paper-feeding units. The print apparatus is controlled by a method including: determining whether the amount of sheets of paper remaining in a first paper-feeding unit has reached a predetermined amount; and if so switching from the first paper-feeding unit to a second paper-feeding unit. If it is determined that the amount of sheets of paper that remain in the first paper-feeding unit has reached the predetermined amount, control is performed so that the paper-feeding unit that is used for printing should be changed after the ejection of the last one of a plurality of sheets of paper that are included in one set thereof set in the first paper-feeding unit.