Patent ID: 9268507
Filing Date: 2016-02-23
CPC Classification: G06F,G06K,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. An image forming apparatus including an image forming unit configured to form a toner image on a sheet based on image data of a page included in a print job, and a temperature control unit configured to control a temperature of a fixing unit when the fixing unit fixes a toner image for the image data of the page on a sheet based on an amount of applied toner for the image data of the page, comprising: an acquisition unit configured to acquire the amount of the applied toner for image data of each page included in the print job formed from a plurality of pages; and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to said image forming unit, image data of an Mth (M is a positive integer) page included in the print job after transmitting, to the temperature control unit, information of the amount of the applied toner for the image data of the Mth (M is a positive integer) page included in the print job, which is acquired by said acquisition unit, wherein, if another job, which is specified to be executed with a priority higher than the print job by a user in advance, is input during execution of the print job, said transmission unit transmits image data of a page included in the other job to said image forming unit after transmitting, to said image forming unit, the image data of the page included in the print job corresponding to the information of the amount of the applied toner transmitted to the temperature control unit.