A printing apparatus includes: a paper cassette that includes a plurality of trays, each of which holds a printing medium, and a switching unit that sets one of the plurality of trays as an operable tray; a printing unit that performs printing on the printing medium held in the operable tray; and a display control unit that causes a user interface, on which setting of which one of the plurality of trays is set as the operable tray by the switching unit is performed by a user, to be displayed on a screen when the paper cassette is set in the printing unit.