Abstract: A printing apparatus in which one of two types of printing heads with opposite scan directions is selectively mounted and the mounted printing head is supplied with printing data representing an image to be printed, thereby printing the image, includes a printing data transfer unit for transferring the printing data to the mounted printing head in one of an order from a beginning to an end of a scan line and an order from the end to the beginning of the scan line; a head recognition unit for recognizing the type of the mounted printing head; and a transfer control unit for enabling the printing data transfer unit to transfer the printing data in the order associated with the type of the mounted printing head recognized by the head recognition unit.

Abstract: A temperature controller forcibly stops an operation of a heating member when a detected temperature detected by a temperature sensor reaches a predetermined heating interruption temperature in an initial temperature rising state. Thereafter, when the detected temperature reaches a standby control temperature, or when a predetermined heating interruption period elapses from when the operation of the heating member is forcibly stopped, the drive operation of the heating member is controlled based on the detected temperature and the standby control temperature from when the detected temperature reaches the predetermined standby control temperature lower than a target temperature until a predetermined standby control period elapses.