A mimeographic printing machine comprises a mimeographic printing means (2) for printing an image of an original document on successive sheets one at a time and for discharging the printed sheets; a sorter (3) having a plurality of bins (6) for receiving the printed sheets discharged from the mimeographic printing means; mode setting means (11) for setting up the sorter (3) for a specified mode such that a number of printed sheets, which are printed from the same original document and exceed the number of the bins (6) of the sorter (3), will be received on the bins in a specified order; and control means (2A) for detecting that the specified mode is set up by the mode setting means (11) and for controlling the mimeographic printing means (2) and the sorter (3) in such a manner that the printed sheets discharged from the mimeographic printing means will be received orderly one after another in the bins (6), from the first bin to the last bin, and then the following printed sheets discharged from the mimeographic printing means will be received orderly one after another in the bins from the first bin.