The present invention relates to a printing apparatus comprising: a feeding roller configured to feed a printing sheet stacked on a stacking unit; a conveyance roller configured to convey the printing sheet fed by the feeding roller; printing means configured to print on the printing sheet conveyed by the conveyance roller; conveyance control means configured to control conveyance of printing sheets to form an overlap state in which a trailing edge of a preceding sheet as a printing sheet precedingly fed from the stacking unit and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet as a printing sheet succeedingly fed from the stacking unit overlap each other; and determination means configured to determine whether to convey the succeeding sheet, while keeping the overlap state, to a printing start position at which a printing operation by the printing means is started based on information regarding a conveyed position of the leading edge of the succeeding sheet, the conveyed position being a position of the leading edge of the succeeding sheet in a state where the succeeding sheet is conveyed to the printing start position. The present invention further relates to a method of controlling such a printing apparatus.