Patent ID: 9681007
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04N

Claim:
1. An image forming apparatus that is connected to a network, comprising: a communication part that receives image forming data, which is to be printed on a medium, through the network; a communication status obtaining part that obtains a communication status of the communication part; a determination part that determines, based on the communication status of the communication part, which of a first process or a second process is executed on the image forming data received by the communication part, the determined process being defined as a data process, a receipt data processing part that processes the image forming data in either the first process or the second process that is determined by the determination part, an image processing part that generates image data to be printed on the medium from the image forming data that are processed by the receipt data processing part, and an image forming part that forms an image on the medium using the image data, wherein the first process is a one-time process and the second process is a step-by-step process,