Printing apparatus and printing method

Abstract

The printing apparatus of the present invention comprises a scanner unit for reading an image in an original; an instruction unit for receiving an instruction from a user and instructing operation of reading the image with the scanner unit; and a printer unit for printing the image that has been read on a medium. In the printing apparatus of the present invention, each reading operation' with the scanner unit is started by receiving an instruction from the user with the instruction unit when the reading operation is to be performed with the scanner unit for a plurality of number of times and a plurality of the images that have been read are to be printed in their respective predetermined positions on the medium. The printing apparatus makes it possible to perform N-up printing of a new procedure that is different from conventional N-up printing.

1 . A printing apparatus comprising:
 a scanner unit for reading an original image;   an instruction unit for receiving an instruction from a user, wherein a single instruction input through said instruction unit is for instructing said scanner unit to perform a reading operation of a single piece of said image, and wherein each said instruction corresponds to one of a plurality of print modes; and   a printer unit for printing said image that has been read on a medium,   wherein, when the reading operations are to be performed N times based on the instructions and N pieces of the images that have been read are to be printed on a single-piece of said medium in respective predetermined positions, a first print mode, among said print modes, corresponding to a first said instruction received for a first time among N times of said instructions is stored, and if the print mode corresponding to a second said instruction received for a second time and thereafter is different from said first print mode, then said second instruction is nullified.   
   
   
       2 . The printing apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising a notifying unit for notifying an error indicating that said second instruction is null.